Communications minister, Solly Malatsi, withdrew the draft policy after finding that at least 6 of its 67 academic citations were AI-generated hallucinations that cited journal articles that don’t exist.

Setting aside the issue of whether where the text came from was appropriate, human or computer or whatnot, I also kind of feel like the legislators and legal people involved should be…you know, doing a careful reading of the actual legislation before it goes to the public for comments.