@ElleGray

IT at work wasn't happy when I responded to their "AI is now available!" announcement to remind them AI suggested glue as a pizza topping.

@jmccyoung @ScottSoCal @ElleGray

Again as funny this is not one of the dangerous ones, they are clearly dangerous and faulty.

Gemini reporting in a convinced tone slightly wrong payroll tax rates (see attached screenshots, it claims they are current for this year even, and provides a kind of correct, but top-level URL)

Notice the little whopper, the pension part: 10,25% is the actual employee part, according to a more detailed PDF here: https://www.sozialversicherung.at/cdscontent/load?contentid=10008.784719&version=1703166731 )

@jmccyoung @ScottSoCal @ElleGray
Note:
Gemini answered a German question about Austrian payroll taxes with a elegant, convincing answer, that contained seemingly all relevant information (it left out half a dozen of small ones in the <1% range out), with the wrong data (all the percentages are wrong, but most of them are off only by a small error).

And more believability to the big lie, it added a truly valid date when the update “social insurance thresholds, etc” usually happens.

@jmccyoung @ScottSoCal @ElleGray Plus it added a URL to the correct website of the Austrian social insurance, but only to the home page, so you have to find the correct info by clicking yourself to the info.

Perfect. If I wanted to do a presentation to present fake info about Austrian payroll taxes as true info, this is about how I'd go about it.

I guess Gemini AI Premium would add the colourful and extra manipulative graph slides that I might add to it.

@jmccyoung @ScottSoCal @ElleGray

Now let's analyse this in detail:

a) an Austrian tax advisor or payroll accounting specialist will probably spot the issues with the answer, especially if they read it and not only glance over it.

b) non-Austrian experts, or even Austrian business people, might accept it at face value. Sounds plausible, has references that are a little hard to check, let's run with it for the moment.

c) the general public will generally accept it as authoritative.