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EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated

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Re: EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated

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The problem we're seeing across many professions is AI output is not getting vetted by knowledgeable people, whether it's an experienced analyst, senior engineer, expert attorney, or the resident physician. At best they skim, at worst they don't even see it at all before it's published, pushed to production, distributed to clients, or submitted to the court. In many cases the skills are available in house to do the n…

But wait, if knowledgeable people have to vet the output, the process will not be 10X faster and you will not be able to fire the knowledgeable people. Therefore, your objection makes no sense. QED.

Re: EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated

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The problem we're seeing across many professions is AI output is not getting vetted by knowledgeable people, whether it's an experienced analyst, senior engineer, expert attorney, or the resident physician. At best they skim, at worst they don't even see it at all before it's published, pushed to production, distributed to clients, or submitted to the court. In many cases the skills are available in house to do the n…

As an attorney, I feel like vetting AI output takes longer than just doing it from scratch, let alone versus just using a traditional form. With AI, I have to read through everything, often explain why it's wrong, and then rewrite everything anyways. I mean, I get way more billables, but I think it's symptomatic of how AI loses its advantage of being quick and accessible to those who don't understand the subject matt…

It's not really any different in programming. Like if you have a well structured code and want to do a clear refactoring across it and you know what to expect, it can speed things up. But if it's generating any significant (and relatively complex) new code, you have to go through the whole thing manually again and then you find out you have to fix way to many things and get bogged down in different paths the AI didn't do correctly.

Of course, it's pretty much impossible to hear a dissenting point of view today and everyone is going crazy on these drugs. I might be hilariously wrong but I think this is the best time to start a software company.

Re: EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Big Four have become a shadow of their former selves. They have become so risk averse that their advice is already incredibly generic and non-actionable. I think their audit work is in a downwards spiral. Audit has become so competitive that they are struggling to find ways to make it cheaper. They have become slaves to reducing the hours booked, and the rate of those hours. To do this they substitute less experi…

> I'm trying to coin a term for the inneficiency caused by chasing efficiency. "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" ?

“Penny wise but pound foolish”?
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