{"id":197371,"date":"2025-10-08T09:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/197371\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T09:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:03:07","slug":"kpmg-corrects-its-own-phantom-reference-after-deloitte-ai-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/197371\/","title":{"rendered":"KPMG corrects its own phantom reference after Deloitte AI scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s been much hand-wringing about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/rear-window\/ai-scandal-not-enough-to-stop-canberra-s-addiction-to-deloitte-20251007-p5n0nd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">evils of consultants<\/a> since Deloitte admitted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/professional-services\/human-intelligence-problem-labor-senator-slams-deloitte-s-ai-bungle-20251006-p5n0ch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence was responsible for the litany of errors and fake references<\/a> in a report it recently charged the government $440,000 for.<\/p>\n<p>But it turns out it\u2019s not just AI that has professional services firms slipping up. KPMG has also handed the government a report containing a phantom reference, and, in its case, old-fashioned human error was to blame.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s been much hand-wringing about the evils of consultants since Deloitte admitted artificial intelligence was responsible for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-197371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}