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

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- The Guardian, 2026-08-17 02:58 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/17/australia-social-media-ban-report-ai-hallucinations-ntwnfb

> 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.