French tax officials use AI to spot 20k undeclared pools (2022)

„The spirits that I summoned…“ / “Die Geister, die ich rief“ came to mind. It is a well-known German phrase about losing control over something you started and unintentional consequences. It‘s adapted from the poem „The Sorcerer‘s Apprentice“.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerer%27s_Apprentice

Re: French tax officials use AI to spot 20k undeclared pools (2022)

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Post by ohgodplsno » Sat, Jun 10, 2023, 9:24 AM UTC

"AI"

Imagine being charged 24 million euros (https://www.01net.com/actualites/piscines-non-declarees-la-t...) by Capgemini, known for having fucked up every single public -private partnership in France so they can just run OpenCV on satellite pictures, while being paid for a THIRTY PERCENT ERROR RATE

Re: French tax officials use AI to spot 20k undeclared pools (2022)

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Post by pyrale » Sat, Jun 10, 2023, 9:25 AM UTC

denhaus wrote: post #2

legitimately the shittiest, most boring, and most unimaginatively dystopian use for AI I have ever seen.

Why? Taxes is what sends children to school, pays for hospitals and funds the infrastructure everyone uses. People love to hear about AI breakthroughs that could transform education or health, why should they not be happy about this?

I have many doubts about the actual technical solution, but I wouldn't discard the work because it's for taxation purpose.