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Re: Built AI forensic accounting software with my dad

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I think OP's being hyperbolic, but defending an idea that is dangerous at worst and immature at best doesn't do much to forward creativity, entrepreneurship, or engineering. Engineers who build products that put people (or their data) in danger are bad engineers. We need to hold one another to a higher standard.

> doesn't do much to forward creativity, entrepreneurship, or engineering Who are you (or who am I) to decide that? The entire point of a show HN is to be non-judgmental and charitable, otherwise it's just going to turn into a cynical echo-chamber. The famous Dropbox comment is a cautionary tale for a reason.

Fair my comment is perhaps a bit cynical but the point of it is deadly serious: like if one of the people involved in the mentioned divorce case finds out possible grounds for a mistrial/retrial. IANAL but I understand the restrictions the ACM puts on using LLMs for even paper reviews, which are far less sensitive than peoples private financial matters.

Regardless, I'm comfortable being a called fool.

Re: Built AI forensic accounting software with my dad

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> doesn't do much to forward creativity, entrepreneurship, or engineering Who are you (or who am I) to decide that? The entire point of a show HN is to be non-judgmental and charitable, otherwise it's just going to turn into a cynical echo-chamber. The famous Dropbox comment is a cautionary tale for a reason.

Fair my comment is perhaps a bit cynical but the point of it is deadly serious: like if one of the people involved in the mentioned divorce case finds out possible grounds for a mistrial/retrial. IANAL but I understand the restrictions the ACM puts on using LLMs for even paper reviews, which are far less sensitive than peoples private financial matters. Regardless, I'm comfortable being a called fool.

Apologies for being a bit snarky, you're alright :)

Re: Built AI forensic accounting software with my dad

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Interesting how "low hanging fruit" always stops just below the level of the person doing the fruit picking. Check back with her when her own boss replaces her with an AI, and let us know how she feels about it.

Do you think that people should continue to be employed when their job is easily replaced by AI?

Maybe not, but we'll have to come up with something for them to do and some way to provide them with an acceptable standard of living.

Re: Built AI forensic accounting software with my dad

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Lmao this is absolute nonsense. First of all accounting as a whole is incredibly broad. The fact you don’t recognise that in your post with nuance shows you have zero clue what you are talking about. E.g llm’s are useless in tax auditing. How do I know this? My brother is a partner at pwc.

You are confidently uneducated in both finance and accounting. Dunning-Kruger is in full effect.

Oh shut up you plank.

Wanna talk about deferred tax? Let’s go.

I’ll wait… I bet you know fck all about finance and accounting and your knowledge is a mish mash of stuff you’ve read from a google search.

Re: Built AI forensic accounting software with my dad

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Do you think that people should continue to be employed when their job is easily replaced by AI?

Maybe not, but we'll have to come up with something for them to do and some way to provide them with an acceptable standard of living.

Why should we care about them? They probably don’t care about blue collar workers
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