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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Vishwam Sankaran

HISTORICAL FACTS: South africa withdraws ai policy after it was found written by ai - The Untold Story

South Africa has decided to withdraw its draft national AI policy after it was found that some of the rules were AI-generated, citing fictional sources.

Communications minister, Solly Malatsi, withdrew the draft policy after finding that at least 6 of its 67 academic citations were AI-generated hallucinations that cited journal articles that don’t exist.

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