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Microsoft May Owe $28.9 Billion in Back Taxes to the IRS::The IRS said it would be cracking down on wealthy individuals for tax evasion early last month, using new AI tools.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oops, need to reel back in some of those executive bonuses. Just kidding, executive never face any consequences.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Imagine defrauding the IRS for even $30K as an individual...

Gonna be hard to not see a few months of jail time.

Tax advisors should really be criminally prosecuted when they signoff on illegal tax schemes. They must be punished and forbidden from ever giving tax advice ever again.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So the IRS is using "AI", except no one knows how and the closest explanation is that they're querying their database with an order by clause.

Are we calling anything tech AI now? How long till I can say my analog clock is AI based?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How long till I can say my analog clock is AI based?

Ask your clock

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

As an analog clock, my knowledge cut off is September 2021. It's possible I may have become AI based since then, but it's not included in my data set

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Are we calling anything tech AI now? How long till I can say my analog clock is AI based?

This isn't a new phenomenon. I have a copy of Graceland on vinyl and it says that you can call it AI right on the album cover. And that's from the 80s.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There's already been a new flavor of coke developed and allegedly chosen by AI. If that's not some kind of singularity moment, I don't know what is.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

A hundred bucks they stole from nearly every man, woman, and child in the country. On top of all the normal theft that results from corporations being allowed to participate in the political process. They won't stop until they have literally everything and we're all serfs (And that moment is a lot closer than you may think)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

That’s what not paying taxes is: stealing from everyone. Microsoft did it to the tune of almost $29 Billion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately I believe you. The housing crisis will be solved by big corpo who will own the land we live on, in turn owning us.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Are they using Azure AI?