Professional services firms’ reliance on AI has also coincided with a hollowing out of lower-level consultants -- who would traditionally ensure the quality of the reports, experts have said.
At the beginning of October 2025, Australia discovered that the strategic report commissioned by the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) to Deloitte contained major errors, invented citations and non-existent academic references. Artificial intelligence, employed through a generic Azure OpenAI GPT-4o model, was directly challenged. The federal government, embarrassed by the magnitude of the scandal, demanded accounts and obta…