澳大利亚政府部门因一份含有错误的报告，将获得德勤公司的部分退款。这份耗资44万澳元的报告由德勤公司完成，其中部分内容使用了生成式人工智能（AI）工具。报告在发布后被发现存在多处错误，包括引用不存在的学者和伪造的法官判决引言。经过修改，更新版报告已删除大量错误引用，并纠正了排版错误。德勤公司已确认部分脚注和引用不准确，并同意退还合同的最后一笔款项。尽管存在这些错误，但报告的实质内容和整体建议并未改变。

🗂️ 报告错误与退款：德勤公司完成的一份价值44万澳元的澳大利亚政府报告被发现存在多处错误，包括引用不存在的学者和伪造的法官判决引言。作为回应，德勤公司已同意部分退款给澳大利亚政府部门，并已发布更新后的报告，修正了其中的引用和排版问题。

🤖 AI工具的使用：德勤公司在报告的撰写过程中，明确披露使用了生成式人工智能（AI）工具，具体为Azure OpenAI GPT-4o。该工具链由澳大利亚就业与劳动关系部（DEWR）授权并在其Azure租户上托管。AI的使用细节在最初发布的报告中并未提及。

⚖️ 影响与修正：尽管报告中出现了引用错误，但澳大利亚就业与劳动关系部发言人确认，这些修改并未改变报告的实质内容或对目标合规框架（TCF）系统的整体建议。更新后的报告删除了大量不准确的引用和脚注，并纠正了多处排版错误。

Deloitte has agreed to partially refund the Australian government for a report with errors.The Big Four firm has said it used AI to help write the report.Among the issues were references to people who do not exist, the Australian Financial Review reported.

Deloitte has agreed to partially refund an Australian government department after errors were discovered in a report completed partly using the technology.

The Big Four firm had been contracted to conduct an assurance review of the country's Targeted Compliance Framework (TCF), part of the IT system that administers welfare and benefits payments. The firm completed the seven-month project, which was worth 440,000 Australian dollars, around $290,000, in June.

But the final report, published in July, was found to contain multiple errors, including academic references to people who didn't exist and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgment, the Australian Financial Review first reported.

The errors were noticed by the Australian welfare academic Chris Rudge.

An updated version of the report was published on the website of the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations on Friday. The new copy deletes more than a dozen nonexistent references and footnotes, rewrites the reference list, and corrects multiple typographic errors, the AFR reported.

In the updated report, Deloitte also disclosed that its methodology "included the use of a generative artificial intelligence (AI) large language model (Azure OpenAI GPT — 4o) based tool chain licensed by DEWR and hosted on DEWR's Azure tenancy."

The detail that AI was used was not part of the report published in July, according to AFR.

Deloitte "confirmed some footnotes and references were incorrect" on the review and has agreed to repay the final installment under its contract, a DEWR spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider.

The spokesperson added that the changes did not change the review's substance or overall recommendations on the TCF system.

Deloitte did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider about whether AI caused the errors.

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