{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1","title":"AI citation failures in the wild","home_page_url":"https://mikias.io/citations/incidents","feed_url":"https://mikias.io/citations/incidents/feed.json","description":"Publicly documented incidents where AI-generated citations failed in shipped work. Every entry links the primary record. Compilation CC BY 4.0, mikias.io.","authors":[{"name":"Mikias Abera","url":"https://mikias.io"}],"items":[{"id":"kpmg-agentic-2026","url":"https://mikias.io/citations/incidents#kpmg-agentic-2026","title":"KPMG: Total Experience agentic-AI thought-leadership report","content_text":"GPTZero's review found only 5 of 45 citations accurate, with the rest fabricated, mangled, or misattributed, and the report was pulled in June 2026. The incident is logged by the OECD AI Incidents Monitor. 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Primary record: https://gptzero.me/investigations/ey","date_published":"2026-07-08T12:00:00Z","date_modified":"2026-07-08T12:00:00Z","external_url":"https://gptzero.me/investigations/ey","tags":["consulting-report"]},{"id":"south-africa-ai-policy-2026","url":"https://mikias.io/citations/incidents#south-africa-ai-policy-2026","title":"Government of South Africa: Draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy","content_text":"Communications Minister Solly Malatsi announced the draft policy's withdrawal on 26 April 2026 after at least 6 of its 67 bibliography sources were found to be fabricated, according to the government's own statement and independent reporting. Primary record: https://www.sanews.gov.za/south-africa/minister-announces-withdrawal-draft-ai-policy","date_published":"2026-07-08T12:00:00Z","date_modified":"2026-07-08T12:00:00Z","external_url":"https://www.sanews.gov.za/south-africa/minister-announces-withdrawal-draft-ai-policy","tags":["policy-document"]},{"id":"deloitte-au-dewr-2025","url":"https://mikias.io/citations/incidents#deloitte-au-dewr-2025","title":"Deloitte Australia: AU$440K assurance review of the Targeted Compliance Framework for the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations","content_text":"The report contained fabricated academic references and a fabricated Federal Court quote, according to the department and press review. Deloitte repaid the final installment of its contract, and a disclosure of Azure OpenAI use was added only in the revised version. Primary record: https://www.dewr.gov.au/assuring-integrity-targeted-compliance-framework/resources/targeted-compliance-framework-assurance-review-final-report","date_published":"2026-07-08T12:00:00Z","date_modified":"2026-07-08T12:00:00Z","external_url":"https://www.dewr.gov.au/assuring-integrity-targeted-compliance-framework/resources/targeted-compliance-framework-assurance-review-final-report","tags":["consulting-report"]},{"id":"deloitte-nl-health-2025","url":"https://mikias.io/citations/incidents#deloitte-nl-health-2025","title":"Deloitte (Newfoundland and Labrador): About C$1.6M Health Human Resources Plan for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador","content_text":"Reporting in November 2025 identified at least four citations to non-existent sources in the plan delivered that May, and Deloitte acknowledged selective use of AI in its preparation, according to coverage by The Independent and Fortune. Primary record: https://theindependent.ca/news/lji/major-n-l-healthcare-report-contains-errors-likely-generated-by-a-i/","date_published":"2026-07-08T12:00:00Z","date_modified":"2026-07-08T12:00:00Z","external_url":"https://theindependent.ca/news/lji/major-n-l-healthcare-report-contains-errors-likely-generated-by-a-i/","tags":["consulting-report"]},{"id":"stanford-reglab-legal-tools-2024","url":"https://mikias.io/citations/incidents#stanford-reglab-legal-tools-2024","title":"Commercial legal AI tools (Lexis+ AI, Westlaw AI-Assisted Research): Stanford RegLab preregistered evaluation, Hallucination-Free?","content_text":"The preregistered evaluation found Lexis+ AI incorrect or misgrounded on more than 17% of queries and Westlaw's AI-Assisted Research on about 33%, while retrieval-augmented generation was being marketed as eliminating hallucinations. Primary record: https://reglab.stanford.edu/publications/hallucination-free-assessing-the-reliability-of-leading-ai-legal-research-tools/","date_published":"2026-07-08T12:00:00Z","date_modified":"2026-07-08T12:00:00Z","external_url":"https://reglab.stanford.edu/publications/hallucination-free-assessing-the-reliability-of-leading-ai-legal-research-tools/","tags":["study"]}]}