South Africa withdraws its AI policy because it was AI-generated

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South African Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana at the podium during the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement at Good Hope Chamber in Parliament

South Africa's ambitions to become a continental leader in artificial intelligence have run into a deeply awkward obstacle: the country's draft national AI policy had to be withdrawn after it was found to contain fictitious, apparently AI-generated citations.

Reuters reported that the document was nearing finalization in parliament when fabricated references were discovered in its source list. Solly Malatsi, South Africa's Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, announced the withdrawal...

Source: https://mashable.com/article/south-africa-withdraws-ai-policy-for-being-ai-generated

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