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KPMG issued a report citing all the transformational ways GenAI has transformed industry, it’s been widely cited.
One minor problem: it turns they used AI to write the report, and it made up all of the evidence.
KPMG have now withdrawn the report in full.
https://www.ft.com/content/b3828e92-4961-4b39-84f0-c42f33be3c3f
@GossiTheDog The Trump processor now installed in AI computers. Lies and makes things up on the spur of the moment. I wonder what another AI would come up with if asked to validate the original report.
@GossiTheDog self fulfilling prophecy
@GossiTheDog Turns out, you actually can make this shit up!
@GossiTheDog this is going to become a frequent pattern: some person or organization of note publishes a document-shaped object, people and media loudly bleat the touted positive results of the document-shaped object long and hard, up until someone figures out it was slop, and then the withdrawal is done with much less fanfare, and damage already done.
Worth noting that report was out for 9 months before anybody actually challenged it.
Similar with the 80% of ransomware groups use GenAI report from MIT (which I ended up getting removed).. is anybody actually bothering to check the GenAI thing is real?
KPMG and EY aren't, they aren't even reading their own reports as they're busy cashing the cheque like MIT.
@GossiTheDog I think they're revealing a: that no-one actually read these reports critically before anyway (or maybe just that nobody read them, period), and b: at least in some other cases than this one, that one of the things broken by the chatbots are the foundational chains of trust that enables people to trust presumably well-intentioned output from competent people who either believe it is a good idea to use chatbots, or are forced to use them.
@GossiTheDog I keep saying it, AI boosters are the best salesmen in history
"Is accounting still a profession?"
https://archive.is/SvbLx
https://www.ft.com/content/af62db01-f6cb-47dc-9df5-b4d22258037b
Remember who funds the push for AI accounting & pushes for de-professionalisation of women's careers.
https://www.bizjournals.com/wichita/news/2025/10/15/koch-artificial-intelligence-accounting-ai-startup.html
https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch-network-is-pushing-trump-to-accelerate-ai-documents-show/
Imagine a stock market where the financial statements were produced by AI.
https://abcnews.com/US/trumps-accounting-firm-resigns-financial-disclosures-longer-relied/story?id=82886011
Or an audit or tax return was prepared by AI.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._Mazars_USA,_LLP
Or payroll processing.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/onramp-secures-15m-to-accelerate-growth-and-scale-ai-capabilities-led-by-koch-disruptive-technologies-302612386.html
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@GossiTheDog The KPMG is falling when it publishes unbelievable reports.
In breaking news KPMG has identified the that the MCT of the GMQP will almost certainly be identified as a QU CVRS in the near future of GHUI. These hallucinatory XKCPs will be expunged from RNDSPLV as soon as the AIRTI of MSLET reaches the threshold determined by KPMGs evaluation of GRW.
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KPMG: Bogus is as bogus does!
@GossiTheDog Well, c'mon, the title says it all: "Redefining excellence."
They just didn't expect it to generate a rating somewhere between zero and "no effing way" 🤦♂️
A KPMG report on how Al is being used by businesses across the world exaggerated adoption of the technology with bogus case studies that appear to have been based on AI hallucinations.
The October report, "Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI", made numerous false claims about the use of AL by organisations including the Swiss bank UBS, the UK's National Health Service and the public transit groups Swiss Federal Railways and Transport for London.
The inaccuracies were identified as AI hallucinations by the research group GPTZero and verified by the FT. After being alerted to the issue, UBS said it would ask KPMG to remove the false claims, and the Big Four firm on Thursday pulled the report from some of its websites.
The discovery is the latest in a number of apparent AI hallucinations in reports by professional services firms and follows EY's retraction of a study last month over fake footnotes and other errors identified by GPTZero.
The KPMG report claimed global wealth manager UBS "integrates Al agents across investment advisory, risk management and compliance monitoring".
@GossiTheDog we're all being grifted here...
@GossiTheDog Ironically makes it a very good report on the state of the industry after AI.
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@GossiTheDog Marking ones own homework! 😜
@GossiTheDog Ironically, if it stops people relying on biased KPMG analysis that would be fairly transformative
@GossiTheDog Another reason why A.I. is a FRAUD.
@GossiTheDog 😂
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