KPMG issued a report citing all the transformational ways GenAI has transformed industry, it’s been widely cited.

[noplasticshower@infosec.exchange]

@GossiTheDog collective hallucination aka bullshit

[jarjan@mederland.nl]

@GossiTheDog
We really need to get rid of the term "Hallucinations". It's an algorithm spewing nonsense. It's a bullshit generator spewing bullshit. It's a chatbot trained to serve up crap that sounds plausible. In short, it's a tool that does exactly what it's designed to do.

And the people who published this monstrosity should not be able to hide behind the tool they used!

[marcas@mastodon.ie]

@GossiTheDog [Nelson Muntz laughter]

[sothach@mastodon.ie]

@GossiTheDog AI doesn't hallucinate. That is just a marketing ploy to try and suggest it is in some way conscious (it isn't and never will be). It is the people unthinkingly using it that are deluded.

[briankrebs@infosec.exchange]

@GossiTheDog Kind of makes one wonder whether the consulting firms have a future if they are just relying on AI to produce their own reports. OTOH, this story isn't exactly a ringing endorsement of that replacement.

[spzb@infosec.exchange]

@fgraf @GossiTheDog FYI you can usually read FT articles by searching for the URL in archive.is eg https://archive.is/X4zGK

[mavnn@bonfire.mavnn.eu]

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social You would have thought that the large, er, "thought leading" consulting firms would have been violently anti-AI; verbose sycophancy as a service is basically the whole business model. That and pre-arranged supplier approval with large orgs so that nobody manages to hire any consultants who are actual experts.

[noplasticshower@infosec.exchange]

@briankrebs @GossiTheDog consulting firms are hosed

[flowerpot@mas.to]

@GossiTheDog Excellent. Brilliant even.
LOL

[mavnn@bonfire.mavnn.eu]

@shelldozer@oldbytes.space Thank you, although I have to honest and say that I think I've heard it used before. Unfortunately I can't remember where, so I'll take a bit of Schrödinger pride in the case that maybe I did coin it on the fly…

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social

[troed@swecyb.com]

@briankrebs

"The industry" needs to realize that using LLMs for things that have a binary works/doesn't work scenario (development, some exploit work) is vastly different from producing text that cannot be verified the same way.

@GossiTheDog

[rycochet@furs.social]

@GossiTheDog 'AI is great!' says report written by an AI for an audience of people who really want AI to replace employees. It's impressive how they've found a way to be dumber than the 'billionaires are great' op eds, written by millionaires paid by billionaires, published in papers owned by billionaires.

[jki@mastodon.social]

@GossiTheDog And that's why we pay big bucks to these big consulting companies, because they are really big and they are really good at consulting and research.
Oh...again?

[sunflowerinrain@mastodon.online]

@GossiTheDog
Their "AI" appears to have been even more successful at making up stuff than their humans used to be (don't ask for my evidence on the reliability of KPMG reports, I signed some kind of NDA).

They always did good presentations and excellent lunches, though, according to the senior managers of their clients.

[tymwol@hachyderm.io]

@GossiTheDog

[erikjonker@mastodon.social]

@GossiTheDog ...the wrong conclusion is that AI will not fundamentally change things, the right conclusion is that KPMG and EY are totally unreliable companies that shouldn't be hired after this and earlier scandals.

[quixote@mastodon.nz]

@GossiTheDog "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. "

You could not make this stuff up. At least, I couldn't. Just not enough imagination.

[priscillaharing@mastodon.green]

@GossiTheDog

[pattykimura@beige.party]

@GossiTheDog The AI fox hired to write a report on why the AI fox excels at guarding the actual henhouse. Funded entirely by actual hungry greedy trillionaire foxes.

This is so remarkably stupid, and utterly predictable. Musk is betting on "too big to fail" to keep him out of jail and afloat. Let's promise to Bernie Madoff and ENRON Musk and all his ilk.

[lemgandi@mastodon.social]

@quixote @GossiTheDog

So Great! Made me laugh out loud.