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

The communications minister, Anika Wells, had said the report showed'many effective options' for online age verification in implementing Australia's social media ban. The communications minister, Anika Wells, had said the report showed'many effective options' for online age verification in implementing Australia's social media ban. Report supporting Australia's teen social media ban appears to contain AI hallucinations, Senate hears The authors of a report testing the technology underpinning Australia's social media ban have conceded ChatGPT was used in editing, but denied a number of citation errors in the report were due to AI hallucinations. The $3.48m age assurance technology trial, run by the UK-based Age Check Certification Scheme (ACCS) last year, tested various types of technology that could be used by social media platforms as part of Australia's under-16 social media ban. The communications minister, Anika Wells, heralded the report as showing "many effective options" for checking people's ages, and it paved the way for the ban to come into effect in December last year.