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Post #2102893

2026-03-03 07:31 UTC

My wife is an accountant. She went to a seminar today where they were told to start using AI or get out of the way. They were shown an AI that can produce consolidated annual accounts and financial statements in a few minutes, that it takes her and the auditors a month to produce. And they look very good! The company is unlikely to pay her and wait for the quality reports she has been producing for years. She's on notice: start prompting the AI or move on. The AI promoters are going to run her and me and probably you into the ground and walk over us all, as they move on to their glorious future.

Replies (4)

  • @artyom@piefed.social 2026-03-03 12:08

    > The AI promoters are going to run her and me and probably you into the ground and walk over us all, as they move on to their glorious future LOL there's no "glorious future", they're just going to rat fuck themselves, because those accounts are going to be **riddled** with errors.

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  • @Fedizen@lemmy.world 2026-03-03 08:33

    What company does she work for so I can stay clear of that impending hallucinatory clusterfuck?

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  • @vrek@programming.dev 2026-03-03 08:12

    Ouch! Tell her I'm sorry, and I'm sorry for you too. All the accountants I worked with did alot more than just reports. Not to mention that sounds great until the Ai says 2+4 =2*4 and now the company owes 20 billion on taxes... Plus in a lot of cases people don't submit records in identical format, the number of excel workbooks I've seen where the data was on "sheet 2" for some unknown reason.... Maybe its just me, I always provided raw data on sheet 1, analyzed data on sheet 2, and if needed complicated formulas on sheet 3. I would be willing to bet their Ai would break on that format.

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  • Extremely sorry to hear that is happening. For what it's worth, reports like this are not uncommon now: https://futurism.com/future-society/deloitte-government-ai-hallucinations https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/06/deloitte-to-pay-money-back-to-albanese-government-after-using-ai-in-440000-report

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