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[–] greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You couldn't pay me to put that green herpes on my profile picture.

[–] Internetexplorer@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (6 children)

AI can be convincing, and it will swear until it's blue in the face that something is right and then just be completely wrong.

But that happens maybe 10% of the time. Other times it is mostly right.

So got to be careful. This guy was in his 50's, out of work, smoking marijuana, depressed, feeling isolated. It was ripe for a catastrophe, with AI hallucinating a crappy idea and the end user just completely running with it.

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[–] wulrus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The one point I don't completely understand is the tax debt: Wouldn't a failed business, no matter how ridiculous, be a complete write-off?

Maybe the problem is that he has to tax each fiscal year independently, so a tax debt in 2023 from successful freelance work would not be diminished by a failed "business idea" in 2024.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago

My sarcastic answer is that it’s not a write-off because he’s not already rich.

My honest answer is that I don’t know, because I don’t know shit about taxes.

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