The top ways people plan to use AI is to help answer filing questions, find deductions or credits, and review returns for mistakes.
If you can’t afford a professional, these don’t seem particularly unreasonable. I certain wouldn’t recommend feeding all your info into chatgpt etc but for a simple filer, asking an LLM for explanations or possible deductions seems fine.
Not everyone has access to the same resources that I do, so I try to picture it from others perspectives.
I don’t know the organization so can’t speak to the source or their methodology but they do note:
The top ways people plan to use AI is to help answer filing questions, find deductions or credits, and review returns for mistakes.
All of which seem pretty reasonable. If you don’t have the money for a professional, at least checking with something that is right more often than not with some basic questions seems perfectly reasonable.
From the reactions above, it seems people are assuming they’re just asking chatgpt to do all their taxes, which doesn’t appear to be the case.
Neither the article, nor source make a distinction as to whether it’s a general purpose LLM or purpose built software.
So it really depends on the question that the poll asked, which as far as I can tell, is not shared.
I mean, a lot of tax stuff is automated. Mine are pretty straightforward so turboTax handles a huge chunk of the work…
OP has commented 800+ times though, which, is modders of magnitude more than 99% of people in the world.
Maybe there was a less spiky way of making your point?
be the change you want to see
I’m absolutely guilty of it too so this as much for me as you but if we want more folks to engage, maybe we ought to try to be kinder to those who actually do.
Most people, even those who scream the loudest about human rights, tend to wear sweatshop clothes made by kids who occasionally burn to death because it’s slightly cheaper to not have fire escapes.
Not enjoying an artist who in most cases isn’t even profiting off of my enjoyment just seems silly. I prefer to focus my efforts on the actual harms to which I, like so many of us, really do contribute.
Not mine but one day my buddy’s 6 year old asked “what’s parking tips?” My buddy being a veteran dad gives him some generic parking advice, doesn’t think much of it until later when he hears his kid singing along to the shaboozy song but instead of “everyone at the bar getting tipsy” he’s sing about how everyone getting parking tips.
Life back in the day was so much easier!
Just so dumb on so many counts.
Everyone ought to have that relationship once, one of the best life experiences anyone could ask for.
Honestly, most of my first few relationships were awkward bumbling affairs. Lot of heart, excitement and zero experience dealing with it all plus another person going through the exact same nonsense.
If you’re looking for advice that I would’ve loved, it’d be pretty basic; be safe, have fun and don’t ever let him make you ever feel uncomfortable.
In both the US and the UK women account for more than 50% of Reddit users.
That is a twist I did not see coming.
My new favourite short joke…
You hear about the non binary prospector? Found gold in them/their hills!
As much hate as we have for LLMs, I’ve had a lot of luck using them to figure out meals for whatever weird food is on special. It’s led to all sorts of interesting meals for fairly cheap.
Generally, I’ll go grab whatever cheap protein is out there from a large market, then hit up my local grocers, see what’s on special and ask an LLM to come out with 4 suggestions based on the foods I give it, choose one, ask for 3 - 4 variations in ascending difficulty, then select one and I’m good to go. Not all have been 10/10 but a lot have been great!
Never heard of that, I’ll check it out. Thanks!
Never heard of these, I’ll take a look! Thanks!
From Canada, in fact from my city, The Dreadnoughts! Their first three albums are punk gold. (Later stuff, they started having fun and doing polka etc. But whenever I see them in concert, they mostly rock from the first 3.)
If you’re only going to listen to one, Polka’s Not Dead would be my recommendation.
(Full credit to the Real McKenzies for paving the way, Chip would be their most famous song.)
I’ve bounced around. Liked Tidal but can’t support an American company these days. I’m currently on Qobuz and enjoy it. The UI isn’t amazing but it’s not bad. I really enjoy the playlists/essential listening features, I’ve fallen down a lot of interesting wormholes that way. They’re also curated by people not algorithms, so your personal recommendations might not be as on point as you’re used to but the general playlists have a wide enough selection that I’ve had a great time.
There’s a service called Soundiiz that helps you move favourites/playlists etc from one service to another relatively painfree, so honestly, maybe give each one of them a couple months and see what works best for you?
Oooh, good points especially as 95% of her wrestling is on her parents’ bed…
Ooooooooh, great list! I can definitely adapt some of these! “Watch out for the CLAW!”
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.