▲ 95 ▼ 1 in 5 Americans to use AI to help file taxes (www.kxan.com) submitted 5 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 56 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 9 points 5 months ago (5 children) Have fun with that audit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [+] audit69@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent [+] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca -7 points 5 months ago (3 children) Like I said, not everyone has the same resources I do... But this doesn't seem worse than googling questions and not everyone can spend hours waiting to talk with the Irs/Cra etc. It just seems that sometimes folks are so determined to be anti LLM that they refuse to see how it could ever help anyone. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 7 points 5 months ago "Googling" used to get you to the needed IRS documentation, but now, with the help of Gemini you're just being lied to. https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/04/analysis-finds-google-ai-overviews-is-wrong-10-percent-of-the-time/ If you need tax help, call your local library, they often have tax help. Also if it seems like a tax dodge, don't take the deduction. Don't outsource your brain to an LLM. You've done your taxes before without a GPT you can do it again. permalink fedilink source parent [+] audit69@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 1 point 5 months ago Believe it or not, there are people who aren't you who struggle with stuff. Help a marginalized person with paperwork and you'll see what I mean. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] audit69@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent
[+] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca -7 points 5 months ago (3 children) Like I said, not everyone has the same resources I do... But this doesn't seem worse than googling questions and not everyone can spend hours waiting to talk with the Irs/Cra etc. It just seems that sometimes folks are so determined to be anti LLM that they refuse to see how it could ever help anyone. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 7 points 5 months ago "Googling" used to get you to the needed IRS documentation, but now, with the help of Gemini you're just being lied to. https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/04/analysis-finds-google-ai-overviews-is-wrong-10-percent-of-the-time/ If you need tax help, call your local library, they often have tax help. Also if it seems like a tax dodge, don't take the deduction. Don't outsource your brain to an LLM. You've done your taxes before without a GPT you can do it again. permalink fedilink source parent [+] audit69@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 1 point 5 months ago Believe it or not, there are people who aren't you who struggle with stuff. Help a marginalized person with paperwork and you'll see what I mean. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 7 points 5 months ago "Googling" used to get you to the needed IRS documentation, but now, with the help of Gemini you're just being lied to. https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/04/analysis-finds-google-ai-overviews-is-wrong-10-percent-of-the-time/ If you need tax help, call your local library, they often have tax help. Also if it seems like a tax dodge, don't take the deduction. Don't outsource your brain to an LLM. You've done your taxes before without a GPT you can do it again. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] audit69@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 1 point 5 months ago Believe it or not, there are people who aren't you who struggle with stuff. Help a marginalized person with paperwork and you'll see what I mean. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 1 point 5 months ago Believe it or not, there are people who aren't you who struggle with stuff. Help a marginalized person with paperwork and you'll see what I mean. permalink fedilink source parent