"A 44-page report titled “Points of Attack: Uncovering Cyber Threats and Fraud in Loyalty Systems” looks like many others that management consultancy EY publishes every year.

These types of reports are the bread and butter of the biggest consultancies on the planet — thought pieces about business that help cement their position as organizations to be commissioned to help companies understand their place in the world, and how to maintain it. EY’s consulting arm generated over $16.4 billion in revenue last year.

There’s just one problem. Dig into this particular report, published in December 2025 — particularly its “resources” section, which provides links to sources of the data and claims cited throughout the document — and things don’t add up.

“It’s riddled with hallucinations,” said Edward Tian, a former employee at journalism website Bellingcat and Princeton University researcher who set up GPTZero, an AI-detection firm that shared its investigation exclusively with Sherwood News.

EY didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment.

The document is a standard advisory report describing the state of cybersecurity weaknesses in the travel industry’s loyalty points ecosystem. But it appears to have issues with citing nonexistent sources."

https://sherwood.news/tech/ai-hallucinations-appear-to-be-creeping-into-consulting-reports/

#AI #GenerativeAI #Hallucinations #Consulting #EY

South Africa Used AI To Write Its Now Withdrawn AI Policy. The Citations Were Fake.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/13/south-africa-used-ai-to-write-its-now-withdrawn-ai-policy-the-citations-were-fake/

LLMs et Hallucinations : comprendre, mesurer, maitriser

https://video.ut0pia.org/w/9mbpeQXtMNohEJhRwPA9oW