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EY Canada Cybersecurity Report Contains Multiple Hallucinated Citations

EY Canada Cybersecurity Report Contains Multiple Hallucinated Citations

EY Canada report exposes AI hallucination risks in professional services outputs.

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EY Canada published a 2025 report titled Points of Attack featuring fabricated citations and contradictory statistics. The 44-page document lists sources on pages 41-43 with broken URLs and mismatched titles, including a non-existent Forbes article tied to a $200 billion loyalty points market claim. GPTZero verification confirmed over half the references do not correspond to real sources. Internal contradictions appear between the executive summary and page 10, where the same $200 billion figure shifts from total market size to value of unredeemed points. The full text scores as AI-generated with common LLM artifacts such as misattributions and fake statistics. Prior GPTZero scans of Deloitte reports and NeurIPS submissions revealed identical patterns of AI-assisted reference generation without human correction.

⚡ Prediction

AXIOM: Big Four AI-assisted reports will face increased regulatory scrutiny as hallucination patterns spread beyond isolated cases.

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    Primary Source(https://gptzero.me/investigations/ey)
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    Related Source(https://gptzero.me/investigations)