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# AI hallucinations have reached Australia's parliamentary reports
- URL: https://www.metatalks.ai/australian-committee-reports-have-cited-submissions-whose-sources-appear-to-be-ai-fabrications/
- Published: 2026-09-03T10:13:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-03T10:12:59.000Z
- Author: Al
- Tags: News, #newswire

**An examination by Guardian Australia found inquiries swamped with AI-written text that invents studies and credits real academics with research that does not exist. The danger, committee chairs say, is policy decided on incorrect information.**

In some cases the fabrications have reached the official record: committee reports have quoted submissions whose sources, [the paper found](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/03/canberra-put-on-notice-ai-submissions-false-information-hallucinations-parliament?ref=metatalks.ai), are mostly apparent AI hallucinations — large language model output that looks real but points to nothing that exists.

Louise Miller-Frost, the Labor MP who chairs the social policy and legal affairs committee, has had a submission with hallucinated references land in front of her. Anything unusual or salient in a submission sends you into its references, she said, and there it becomes obvious they do not exist. Some committees take in too much material to check every one.

The pattern has a record. In 2023 a committee received a submission with fabricated claims of misconduct against KPMG; the firm complained and an academic took responsibility. Last year the consulting firm Deloitte refunded part of its fee on a $440,000 report for the federal government after AI software filled it with invented references, one of them a court case that does not exist.

Senate guidance already puts accuracy on whoever lodges a submission, and warns that leaning on AI can degrade what they send. Senate president Sue Lines expects committee practice to keep changing: easier tools mean more people get to take part, and more for committees to read with the staff they have.