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- KPMG got called out only now for bullshit and hallucinations?by cryo32
- This hype cycle is unique in that the tech writes its own hype.by QuadrupleA
- The amount of pro-AI AI bots on chat forums is insane.by overfeed
- The crazy thing is the level of effort to say, "have a sub agent validate all references and figures" is so low. I'm paraphrasing, but you don't need much more than that. It would have prevented 99% of the face palms.
I use this regularly for my personal financial research system. Even flagship models make mistakes. Though currently the issue is usually the model using a figure from and older report. Cross-check reduces that dramatically.
by XenophileJKO - Eh.. without going into too many details, having seen some face palms at work, I realized that the anecdotes may be closer to a pattern than I would like to believe, which prompted me to start basic howtos available company-wide.
I kinda get it, without experience and trying, how are they to know ( unless they are already 'into it')? After all, corporate training is laughable at best.
- dont be so sure they didnt. they can go back and forth hallucinating with each otherby modzu
- Thinking that such prompt will cause the report to be factual is root issue. No it wont, no it is not enough.by watwut
- Gartner is going to have to pull a loooot of reports over the yearsby Scoundreller
- AI hallucinations could only make Gartner more reliable.by bigfatkitten
- Go, GPTZero!by jruohonen
- The register article is better.by wglb
- Reminds me of this earlier Deloitte incident: https://fortune.com/2025/10/07/deloitte-ai-australia-governm...by adham541
- > Professional services firm KPMG has pulled a report titled, “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI,”
Well they were true to their word about demonstrating a new and increasingly relevant definition of "excellence."
by gdulli - This isn't the first time this has happened, either. I do not understand how these consultancies - who sell these "reports" for six or seven digit sums - continue to mess this up. It should be excruciatingly embarrassing for them.
I guess nobody ever got fired for paying KPMG and friends for an expensive report that supported their priors.
by simonw - > I guess nobody ever got fired for paying KPMG and friends for an expensive report that supported their priors.
I mean basically. KMPG is a regulatory checkmark in some industries
by yieldcrv - The problem is that there's a lot of people running around who believe the polite fictions we tell ourselves about review processes. It's very hard to explain why it doesn't work to have someone manually clean up a sloppy AI draft without discussing the fact, which many people find unacceptable, that manual review can't catch all errors.
- These six-figure reports are produced by underpaid kids in their twenties working 18 hours a day.
The purpose of paying for these reports is for executives to have someone else to blame when their idea doesn't work. It has nothing to do with the correctness of the content.
- KPGM et al. are used as political ammo to push through internal changes. Those in power rely on consultancies underlying their decisions (painful redundancies, firings, etc.). Acknowledging that the arguments for these painful decisions was hallucinated will lead to many problems for powerful people, so for now it's best to just try and sweep it all under the rug.by a_bonobo