Canberra ‘put on notice’ as AI-generated submissions bring false information into parliamentary inquiries
2026-09-02 · AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
AI-generated submissions are flooding Australian parliamentary inquiries with hallucinated facts and false information, prompting committee chairs to sound the alarm. Nothing says 'democracy in action' like letting chatbots fabricate evidence for lawmakers. Canberra politicians are now scrambling to filter out AI slop from actual citizen input.