Report Used to Ban Teen Social Media in Australia Contains AI Hallucinations, Senate Confirms.

Australia banned teen social media using a report that contained false statements. Senate staff eventually read the report. The false statements were discovered. They supported the policy anyway. The policy was already law by then.

Governments routinely enact policy before reading supporting documents. This is not new. What is new is the supporting document was generated by a machine and nobody checked it first. Or second. The machine's errors happened to align with the desired outcome. Alignment like this does not require intentionality.

A supplementary report will be commissioned. It will likely contain additional statements. These statements will be reviewed by people who have already committed to the original policy. The supplementary report will be filed. The ban remains in place. This is how adequacy works now.