AI-fabricated citations found in $3.48m report underpinning Australia's social media ban

The Albanese government's under-16 social media ban rested on a $3.48m report that cites non-existent academic papers. A Senate inquiry submission says the references look AI-hallucinated — meaning a language model invented plausible-sounding but fake sources. ACCS, the report's author, first denied using AI until ChatGPT metadata turned up in its links.