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@Libraryadvocate.bsky.social @librayadvocate.bsky.social · 11h

Let me sunshine in.

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 1d

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 1d

“the benefits gigantic” said a member of the billionaire class who are the only people to benefit from extracting money and stealing data to further enshittify and impoverish everything and everyone while trashing the planet.

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Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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@Libraryadvocate.bsky.social @librayadvocate.bsky.social · 6d

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@Libraryadvocate.bsky.social @librayadvocate.bsky.social · 6d

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Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report

Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 6d

#BREAKING 🚨 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues.

Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump.

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HEADLINE: Deloitte to refund government, admits AI errors in $440k report

Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.

A new version of the report for the Department of Workplace Relations (DEWR) was quietly uploaded to the department’s website on Friday, ahead of a long weekend across much of Australia. It features more than a dozen deletions of nonexistent references and footnotes, a rewritten reference list, and corrections to multiple typographic errors.

(photo of Deloitte Australia HQ) Deloitte Australia has made almost $25 million worth of deals with the Department of Workplace Relations since 2021. Photographer Dion Georgopoulos

The first version of the report, about the IT system used to automate penalties in the welfare system such as pauses on the dole, was published in July. Less than a month later, Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.

At the time, Rudge speculated that the errors may have been caused by what is known as “hallucinations” by generative AI. This is where the technology responds to user queries by inventing references and quotes. Deloitte declined to comment.

The incident is embarrassing for Deloitte as it earns a growing part of its $US70.5 billion ($107 billion) in annual global revenue by providing advice and training clients and executives about AI. The firm also boasts about its widespread use of the technology within its global operations, while emphasising the need to always have humans review any output of AI.

SUBHEADING: Deleted references, footnotes

The revised report has deleted a dozen references to two nonexistent reports by Professor Lisa Burton Crawford, a law professor at the University of Sydney, that were included in the first version. Two references to a nonexistent report by Professor Björn Regnell, of Lund University in Sweden, were also deleted in the new report.

Also deleted was a made up reference to a court decision in a leading robo-debt case, Deanna Amato v Commonwealth.

The new report has also deleted a reference to “Justice Davis” (a misspelling of Justice Jennifer Davies) and the made-up quote from the nonexistent paragraphs 25 and 26 in the judgement: “The burden rests on the decision-maker to be satisfied on the evidence that the debt is owed. A person’s statutory entitlements cannot lawfully be reduced based on an assumption unsupported by evidence.”

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@Libraryadvocate.bsky.social @librayadvocate.bsky.social · 8d

What an awful man.

Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 8d

"He recommends depoliticising hospitals and mandating civility training.

“This is not just a threat against Jews, this is a threat to civilisation”.

Gaza censorship in medical field @wendybacon1.bsky.social @sstephanietrann.bsky.social #auspol #antisemitism
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"A threat to civilisation" says doctor against hospital's Children and War event - Michael West

Civilisation is under attack from Australian doctors, warns pro-Israel psychiatrist Doron Samuell. Royal Children's Hospital agrees.

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@Libraryadvocate.bsky.social @librayadvocate.bsky.social · 9d

Love it!

New ‘This Is Australia, Dickhead’ Option Added To Tip Screen — The Shovel

“When I go into pick up my takeaway pizza, it’s nice to know I have the choice to add a little extra … context about what country we’re in"

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14d

When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
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Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot

Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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@Libraryadvocate.bsky.social @librayadvocate.bsky.social · 15d

Back in the day I was a single mum on a pension, and I could get a rental property. Couldnt get public housing. Been earning a wage for a couple of decades now, and renting is so horrendous. It'about investors gaining tax breaks and profiting from the same tax payers that suffer.

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@Libraryadvocate.bsky.social @librayadvocate.bsky.social · 15d

First time that came to mind!

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@Libraryadvocate.bsky.social @librayadvocate.bsky.social · 15d

Whether before or after Trumps rambling and obnoxious and lie fuelled dictatorial speech, this is hardly encouraging as a nation that supposedly supports accountability in our politicians, or when they appoint mates in positions power

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@Libraryadvocate.bsky.social @librayadvocate.bsky.social · 15d

The last time we had a real debate was the 1967 referendum and everyone against the Vietnam war. And dont forget sending our military as peacekeepers into Mogadishu (that was confronting enough) then, East Timor.Since then the government has been beholden to big business and crap governments

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@Libraryadvocate.bsky.social @librayadvocate.bsky.social · 15d

There is no scientific evidence that proves any race is better than any other. Except that white colonialism have used any excuse to justify murdering of Indigenous people, and their continuing kowtowing to the very people that treat them with the same contempt, is stupidity personified

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@Libraryadvocate.bsky.social @librayadvocate.bsky.social · 15d

They subscribe to various digital platforms you can access for free! If you count your tax payer dollars going to something that actually benefits every one 😀

@Libraryadvocate.bsky.social @librayadvocate.bsky.social · 15d

To be fair, we've had previous students and one previous principal who have promoted indigenous rights back in 1988. Josephites do better than most, But economic decisions to cut library budgets and staffing don't help.

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@Libraryadvocate.bsky.social @librayadvocate.bsky.social · 15d

It beggars belief. If the vast majority of Australian voted against them, then they are not voice that needs to be promoted, or respected.

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@Libraryadvocate.bsky.social @librayadvocate.bsky.social · 15d

Lax tax laws that favour investors, not mortgagees or anyone trying to get a rental or buy their first home.And when investors buy up previous rental stock and turn them into short term rentals. Or build luxury apartments in previously working class suburbs

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@Libraryadvocate.bsky.social @librayadvocate.bsky.social · 15d

The richest taking advantage of our lax laws.

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@Libraryadvocate.bsky.social @librayadvocate.bsky.social · 15d

a young man wearing a blue tank top and shorts is sitting on a staircase holding a watch .

ALT: a young man wearing a blue tank top and shorts is sitting on a staircase holding a watch .

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@Libraryadvocate.bsky.social @librayadvocate.bsky.social · 15d

Our Catholic independent school has a First Nations Action Group, run by teachers and ESOs. But the principal put off having a local indigenous leader talk to teachers, because we don't have any indigenous students. Kudos to them for trying to introduce actual indigenous voices

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@Libraryadvocate.bsky.social @librayadvocate.bsky.social · 15d

Monetise better!

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@Libraryadvocate.bsky.social @librayadvocate.bsky.social · 15d

Or having a public library card xxx

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@Libraryadvocate.bsky.social @librayadvocate.bsky.social · 15d

High level hacking by leftist, woke, antifascist terrorists!!

a person is typing on a laptop with a green screen behind them

ALT: a person is typing on a laptop with a green screen behind them

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@Libraryadvocate.bsky.social @librayadvocate.bsky.social · 15d

We can't deny that selling a vast proportion our fossil fuels overseas is contributing to climate change. And we're not even taxing these companies enough, if at all, to at least build a fund to mitigate the damage it is causing. And then mooting that tax payers fund a flood levy

As more flooding looms for Australia, insurers pitch a bold plan

The peak body for insurers wants the next federal government to stump up $30 billion to protect homes against an onslaught of climate-fuelled flooding predicted to batter Australian communities in the...

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