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Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found

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Re: Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found

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The entire world sells products to encourage you to do your work with AI assistance.

But god forbid that there should be any evidence of that in your .....work. You'll be suspended or fired.

Holy god, it looks like someone used AI and were a bit sloppy in their editing!!!! YOU'RE FIRED!

Maybe someday when there's been enough such reports people will shrug like they do about security breaches now.

Re: Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found

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The entire world sells products to encourage you to do your work with AI assistance. But god forbid that there should be any evidence of that in your .....work. You'll be suspended or fired. Holy god, it looks like someone used AI and were a bit sloppy in their editing!!!! YOU'RE FIRED! Maybe someday when there's been enough such reports people will shrug like they do about security breaches now.

God forbid people actually have to do work and fact-check the hallucination machines!

Re: Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found

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post #4

The entire world sells products to encourage you to do your work with AI assistance. But god forbid that there should be any evidence of that in your .....work. You'll be suspended or fired. Holy god, it looks like someone used AI and were a bit sloppy in their editing!!!! YOU'RE FIRED! Maybe someday when there's been enough such reports people will shrug like they do about security breaches now.

God forbid people actually have to do work and fact-check the hallucination machines!

You're correct - whether you keep your job depends on how well you conceal that you used AI.

Re: Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

God forbid people actually have to do work and fact-check the hallucination machines!

You're correct - whether you keep your job depends on how well you conceal that you used AI.

I don't think most people care if you used AI or not, as long as it's correct. AI or no AI, incorrect and false stuff makes people tired of you.

Re: Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found

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The entire world sells products to encourage you to do your work with AI assistance. But god forbid that there should be any evidence of that in your .....work. You'll be suspended or fired. Holy god, it looks like someone used AI and were a bit sloppy in their editing!!!! YOU'RE FIRED! Maybe someday when there's been enough such reports people will shrug like they do about security breaches now.

I dont know if its "evidence of AI" so much as "Evidence of laziness causing extreme public embarrassment"

Every good AI policy is basically:

1. You may use

2. You are still responsible for the quality of your output, customer facing embarrassment is your fault and will not be attributed to the technology.

In this case, the LLM was used to generate a reference table.

>“It seems that these references were generated and attached to the document after the fact, as they are not cited in the body of the text.

Like its just a retrospective justification for the content they have written, its not lazy editing it implies a complete lack of research, while fraudulently trying to imply the research was completed.

Re: Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found

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The entire world sells products to encourage you to do your work with AI assistance. But god forbid that there should be any evidence of that in your .....work. You'll be suspended or fired. Holy god, it looks like someone used AI and were a bit sloppy in their editing!!!! YOU'RE FIRED! Maybe someday when there's been enough such reports people will shrug like they do about security breaches now.

These suspensions send the appropriate message. This isn't the same thing as poorly reviewed marketing copy, hallucinations in government policy papers are unacceptable.

Re: Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found

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The entire world sells products to encourage you to do your work with AI assistance. But god forbid that there should be any evidence of that in your .....work. You'll be suspended or fired. Holy god, it looks like someone used AI and were a bit sloppy in their editing!!!! YOU'RE FIRED! Maybe someday when there's been enough such reports people will shrug like they do about security breaches now.

> Maybe someday when there's been enough such reports people will shrug like they do about security breaches now.

Yes, it's a real danger that it becomes a whole shift downward for society. We stop objecting to errors and mediocrity because they've become so normalized.

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