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comment periods, petitions, constituent mail, astroturfing. Every case below was checked against its sources by a second model before it entered.

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1 Sep

Friction removed Public consultation Parliament of Australia, AU

AI-generated submissions with fake references flood Australia's parliament inquiry system

At least 39 submissions to the current parliament contained fabricated references, over 100 carried ChatGPT metadata tags, and at least one committee report incorporated the hallucinated evidence.

Who pays: Parliamentary inquiries, lawmakers, and public policy decisions reliant on fabricated evidence

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17 Feb

Signal collapse Public consultation South Coast Air Quality Management District, US

More than 20,000 comments from one platform in an air-quality vote

A comment period read as overwhelming opposition; authenticity unresolved.

Who pays: residents whose real comments no longer count

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