South Africa Draft National AI Policy Reportedly Included Fictitious References Believed to Be AI Hallucinations
Date: 2026-04-10
Affected: Department Of Communications And Digital Technologies (south Africa), Generative Ai Developers, Government Of South Africa, Large Language Model Developers
Attack vector: hallucination
Category: real-world
Severity: Medium

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1467: South Africa Draft National AI Policy Reportedly Included Fictitious References Believed to Be AI Hallucinations. Alleged deployer/developer: Department Of Communications And Digital Technologies (south Africa), Generative Ai Developers, Government Of South Africa, Large Language Model Developers. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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