KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations

jruohonen

Go, GPTZero!

ChrisArchitect

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515733

Scoundreller

Gartner is going to have to pull a loooot of reports over the years

gdulli

> Professional services firm KPMG has pulled a report titled, “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI,” Well they were true to their word about demonstrating a new and increasingly relevant definition of "excellence."

XenophileJKO

The crazy thing is the level of effort to say, "have a sub agent validate all references and figures" is so low. I'm paraphrasing, but you don't need much more than that. It would have prevented 99% of the face palms. I use this regularly for my personal financial research system. Even flagship models make mistakes. Though currently the issue is usually the model using a figure from and older report. Cross-check reduces that dramatically.

cryo32

KPMG got called out only now for bullshit and hallucinations?

simonw

This isn't the first time this has happened, either. I do not understand how these consultancies - who sell these "reports" for six or seven digit sums - continue to mess this up. It should be excruciatingly embarrassing for them. I guess nobody ever got fired for paying KPMG and friends for an expensive report that supported their priors.

QuadrupleA

This hype cycle is unique in that the tech writes its own hype.

adham541

Reminds me of this earlier Deloitte incident: https://fortune.com/2025/10/07/deloitte-ai-australia-governm...