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PricewaterhouseCoopers just got caught trying to pass AI slop as authentic research
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This kind of slop for research has been passed around for decades. In the 1990s I read a "corporate intelligence report" on a company I was working for, it was 90% incorrect and 40% far far off target. Over the years I had several occasions to read and check these kinds of business research reports and they'd rarely even get the things that were published in the quarterly reports right, anything beyond that kind of public information was a lot of speculation, most of it wrong.