TechReport supporting Australia’s teen social media ban appears to contain AI hallucinations, Senate hears

A Guardian analysis found that a section of the report behind Australia’s under-16 social media ban contains nonexistent, mismatched or misleading academic citations. The authors of the $3.48m age-assurance trial acknowledged using ChatGPT to rewrite some paragraphs, but denied that AI generated the citation errors.

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