{"id":1005316,"date":"2026-04-28T09:28:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005316"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:55:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:25:39","slug":"south-africa-withdraws-ai-policy-due-to-fake-ai-generated-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/28\/south-africa-withdraws-ai-policy-due-to-fake-ai-generated-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa withdraws AI policy due to fake AI-generated sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has withdrawn its \u200bfirst draft national \u200bAI policy after revelations that it \u200bcontained fictitious sources in its reference list which appeared to have been AI-generated. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most plausible explanation is that \u200cAI-generated citations \u2060were \u2060included without proper verification. This should not have happened,&#8221; Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Solly Malatsi said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This \u200bfailure is not a mere technical issue but has compromised the integrity and credibility of \u200bthe draft policy,&#8221; he wrote \u2060in a \u200cpost on X on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has withdrawn its \u200bfirst draft national \u200bAI policy after revelations that it \u200bcontained fictitious sources in its reference list which appeared to have been AI-generated. &#8220;The most plausible explanation is that \u200cAI-generated citations \u2060were \u2060included without proper verification. This should not have happened,&#8221; Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Solly Malatsi said. &#8220;This \u200bfailure is not a mere technical issue but has compromised the integrity and credibility of \u200bthe draft policy,&#8221; he wrote \u2060in a \u200cpost on X on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005342,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005316\/revisions\/1005342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}