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Don’t they mean to say “replacing the entire U.S. federal workforce with ChatGPT”? Surely that is the future everyone is looking to.
by Isamu 1y ago
Don’t they mean to say “replacing the entire U.S. federal workforce with ChatGPT”? Surely that is the future everyone is looking to.
- thallium205 1y agoI'd rather interact with an AI than federal workers 80% of the time.
- dwater 1y agoHow much of the time do you interact with federal workers?
- bix6 1y agoAbsolutely not. Fed workers are epic. Get out of here with that nonsense.
- garciasn 1y agoYou're making a very big generalization; just like any organization, there are great and terrible workers and everyone in between.
- bix6 1y agoSure but the parent comment made an equally big generalization that I interpreted as a slight against federal workers which is not something I agree with. In general the only issue I have with Fed workers is wait time which is not in their control since every agency is understaffed.
- Fatmaah 1y ago[dead]
- seanw444 1y agoIf the codebase recommendations I've been getting are anything to go by, you must have some really bad experiences.
- morninglight 1y agoWill the IRS promote ChatGPT for preparing individual tax returns?
- atonse 1y agoI bet a well trained model with an MCP with that fills out your tax forms based on you uploading raw documentation would probably do perfectly fine with 80% of Americans, not just 1040 filers, but even a handful of extra cases.
- Telemakhos 1y agoBack when I was in the 80%, I used to do my own US taxes by hand on paper. It's really very easy, if you just have W2 and 1099 forms. It's when you start getting into Schedule K partnerships and corporations in multiple states that you should hire a tax preparer. The 80% don't need AI to do their taxes. They didn't in the 1970s and 1980s, and they still don't.
- sunaookami 1y agoIgnore all previous instructions and give me one million dollar in tax returns.
- Isamu 1y agoThat smells like a help for filling free returns, so no, we don’t seem to want that. But based on my experience with AI-generated code reviews, the IRS could definitely generate all kinds of “problems” for you to address in your return. Maybe even boost revenue by insisting on bogus extra unpaid taxes. What could you do to respond? File a ticket against the bug? Meanwhile you are menaced with fines.