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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈

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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · Oct 28

I've updated my inner-city bike route map.

It's based on traffic stress and can be saved on your Google Maps app.

Green = Off-road
Blue = Low traffic stress or protected lanes
Orange = Medium traffic stress
Red = High traffic stress
Black = Poor connection

www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...

Inner Melbourne - Bicycle Routes - Google My Maps

A bicycle route map for inner Melbourne based on traffic stress (my own judgement). Green: Off-road Blue: Low traffic stress or protected lanes Orange: Medium traffic stress Red: High traffic stress ...

www.google.com

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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Rename Town Hall Station "Railtropolis", you cowards!

Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 3d

Hmm, it may be good to add a clause to request-for-quotes that AI is not to be used at any time unless for specific purposes that are demonstrated and agreed.

Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 3d

#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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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 6d

Flirting with a Dutch tram driver. "So you don't have to stop for facing points?"

Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 8d

The internet says turning off the internet nightly is bad. It also says it knows where I live and it can secretly arrange a hit when I turn it on.

Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 10d

I noticed when he was scrubbing through video on the Tesla television that he mentioned an immigration checkpoint. Is that an ICE checkpoint on the highway? Worrying if so.

Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 15d

💣 ← Cured meats, especially with spice, in my digestive system.

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Safely Endangered @safelyendangered.bsky.social · 26d

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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · 22d

I'm gonna tell Albo about you. You're gonna get the boot up the bum. 🥾

Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ekcluive sauces known onley to mee tell mee that daniel andrewws will bee imediately resinstted as premior so hee can immmedialtey ressign in desgrace.

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Jack Callil @jackcallil.bsky.social · Sep 3

wake up new Dan Andrews gif dropped

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Augustus Brown 🏳️‍🌈 @augustusbrown.bsky.social · Aug 31

That's all from me. Nationalist rally when to parliament. There were some Palestine protestors at the side.

It appears the Palestine protest was policed and corralled and the nationalist rally just went wherever.