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submitted 2 days ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I wonder if I counted...

So I did the tax prep using a free offer from TurboTax. Everything seemed traditional.

Then, at the end it generated an AI summary of my return. I didn't have a choice, it just did it. I have the "unhelpful" feedback because:

Despite saying it was "explaining" the numbers and why, all it did was just list the numbers from the fairly straightforward table right above the AI response in a more awkward form, not explaining anything.
Further, despite the seemingly easy task of "Take a table of figures and repeat them in prose", it still screwed up and messed up and of the figures that all our had to do was repeat verbatim.

So AI was forced into my tax prep and did nothing substantive (thank goodness) and flubbed the cosmetic role it tried to play.

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

Why does nobody use FreeTaxUSA?

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

I actually had not used TurboTax before. And as a result I could do state and federal free with them this year, so it was cheaper than freetaxusa.

But won't be using it again next year, it was fine but not particularly impressive compared to usually cheaper alternatives.

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