Ahhhh, it’s been at least 20 mins or so since i had a reason to say “Fuck Deloitte”
Fuck Deloitte
Fuckers deserve to rot
At very least, they should be banned from bidding on Australian government contracts for a couple of years.
If a doctor did this, they’d lose their license to practice.
You wish. Doctors do worse than this all the time. Sure, not in formal papers submitted to a government, but so many GPs will blame every problem on someone being fat or diabetic or insert random trivial knowledge they retained from school instead of using actual critical thinking skills…
Many doctors do not deserve their licenses.
You’re not wrong but I think the takeaway is to hold both groups responsible
AI will replace jobs!
… Maybe. But not a lot. And as long as they try, stuff like this will keep happening.
AI will create jobs, millions of jobs, for intelligent people to sift through the AI slop searching for pearls. It will become harder every year, so they will always need more people to do it. It’s unclear what happens when the AI slop outpaces humanity’s ability to filter it. I guess we can call it “the technological singularity nobody wanted”.
The bubble will eventually burst and AI will mostly disappear.
Just like in the scifi movies, where robots and ai are basically non-existent.
It’s not about the concept of AI, it’s about current developments in generative AI, which is just one approach for it but has largely hijacked the term. This one could burst and disappear, hopefully replaced by something better, but the general field of AI would not.
Also, I’m not sure where you are going with that argument. Despite being the subject of stories for millennia, nobody has invented dragons yet.
There are no pearls. It’s uniform, blenderized raw sewage.
Refund? No criminal charges for fraud or anything like that? It’s gonna keep happening if no one gets punished for it.
And a partial refund at that.
Better option would be to require the senior Deloitte partners and manager to do real community service program (live-in junior janitor at homeless shelter or a hospice) for 6 months (with an assets freeze for the duration of community service).
It’s ridiculous. The fact that a significant part of the report was clearly fraudulent calls into question the merit of the entire report. How could anyone take it seriously after finding dozens of fraudulent sources? They should sue to recover 100% of what was paid.
The thing is that these reports (and training material and industry analysis) is Deloitte’s bread-and-butter.
If they have begun outsourcing their product to an LLM, and believe that the new is comparable to the product they previously provided, they are admitting that everything they have ever produced is garage and no one should be paying them anything.
I still think personal responsibility (as outlined in my post above) is a far better option that a fine.
A fine is the cost of business. I don’t think a senior Deloitte partner or manager would like to do a 6 month mandatory de-mining community service program (Australia can send them to my country, Ukraine, as part of a community service exchange program).
Partners and managers (at least senior ones) are held accountable for profitability. A fine directly hits their bonuses. But holding the partners personally liable for fraud would be a good thing to do as well.
mandatory de-mining
Whoever did that report along with the reviewer should be fired for that. AI is just a tool, not a freaking replacer.
Refunding is far from enough, there should be a steep fine for fraudulent work.
Its 100% hallucinations.
It will keep happening. LLMs are the perfect tools for those huge meat grinding consulting companies. Their industry is all about looking good, not factual quality, just like LLMs.
Finally a company with great service and ethical standards!
