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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (17 children)

I don't understand why generative AI would be involved in a tax return? It's just data entry.

If your tax return needs creative assistance, maybe you should go to jail instead?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think the point of this comic is that AI is doing all of the fun creative stuff for us but the jobs that we actually hate doing are beyond its capabilities.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Haven't most tax returns been automated since way before AI? Most methods can pull and auto-pop all the needed info. Usually after I give it my SSN or sometimes a number or two from the W2 it's done but for some clicking through review screens.

[–] micka190 3 points 2 months ago

They have, yes. Doing math for your taxes is as simple a task as doing math that needs to be applied to your taxes in the correct order. There's no need for AI in that process at all.

The only potentially difficult part (massive "potentially" here) that doesn't involve math is probably having a UI that intuitively guides the user into selecting the right things that apply to them (if that data can't already be queried from somewhere else like a government site). But you don't really need AI for that either.

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