Deloitte’s AI mess has gotten even worse—and HR should be paying attention

However, critics are not convinced that footnote surgery can fix the problem. Christopher Rudge, an academic at the University of Sydney who first uncovered the fake references, argued that “instead of just replacing one hallucinated fake reference with a new ‘real’ reference, they have replaced the fake hallucinated references and in the new version there are about five, six or seven or eight in their place”, suggesting that the original claims were not clearly based on evidence.