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5:30 pm, May 26th, 2026 - 11 comments
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Daily review is also your post.
This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/25/courts-crack-down-on-ai-hallucinations/
So, why is this a more visible issue? It’s not just self-representing lay litigants but also professionals who encounter/cause these issues. The defining feature is that it does get checked, sooner or later, as it should, because verifiable facts matter in the court. This is also the reason why and how Mike Smith and his lawyers unearthed Luxon being a little too coy for comfort.
Another area where accuracy matters a lot is health. How many lay ‘doctors’ and ‘therapists’ use AI to self-diagnose and self-treat (incl. mental health issues)? Not to mention the risk of handing over sensitive personal data & information to the Tech Bros.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/596402/complaint-laid-with-ombudsman-about-apparent-withholding-of-information-by-pm-s-office
Is Luxon going to claim that he went to the toilet in Te Puke when the meeting [more than one?] was taking place in his office?
Oh dear, the wet bus ticket might be bought out.
I can see why disenfranchised people can lose their shit when challenged by authority. These clowns act with impunity and 'get away with it'.
Where’s the will, where’s the passion to vote this lot out of office?
I don't recon they'll get away with this. There are a number of components to the matter which can't be covered by, "I don't recall" and the questions will keep coming and coming. It's clearly corrupt and being covered up.
Agreed! This is much bigger than a few hardcopies that may or may not have been used in the PM’s office. So far, Luxon’s despicable actions have already denied a New Zealand citizen his day in court. It’s no easy feat to stoop down to Trumpian Banana Republic level but Luxon and National are giving it a bloody good shot.
Imagine being in the top role in a country, being subject to constant public exposure and having to lie. Repeatedly.
Luxon can't be being shielded from the facts by a team of minders; the situation is too clear, you'd have to be exceptionally un-intelligent to not be immediately able to understand what was going on in your own office.
So he's forced to lie. Big, famous, powerful man, having to lie to the whole country.
It's disturbing really.
Well could be any assumption that Luxo
caresgives 2 fcks….would fly in the face of everything shown so far ?Or if there is some confliction…maybe he's taken up… smoking? Having a quiet soothing puff out in the night air? (cheers Casey : )
No, he didn’t lie to us, he just hid the truth from us. We’re not his equal and he’s not one of us. Once upon a time he was one of us, but something changed him and led him down a different path. But that was his choice and he should take personal responsibility for it, if he still can.
Hiding the truth is not lying?
Have you never played the game of hide & seek when you were a child? Seek and you’ll find.
It’s no different with OIA requests; ask the wrong question and you’ll get fobbed off, ask the right question and you’ll receive.
It’s all a bloody game to those who supposedly represent us – they’re playing with us and laughing at us, all the way to the bank.
And doing a photo-op while flipping a burger at Macca’s doesn’t make you one of us.