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by reilly3000 5 days ago
What happens if the auditors use software that consumes the model provider they are auditing? Seems like an obvious conflict of interest for the model, no?

I think that’s not how that works today, but I’m sure that it could and will one day.

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If it’s like other things, the auditors of Anthropic will have a contract with OpenAI and vice versa.
How is this any different than Microsoft? I suspect all of the big four use AD and Windows in their enterprise yet that isn’t a dealbreaker for auditing MS’ financials.
Neither Active Directory nor the Windows desktop operating system are a primary factor in accounting with respect to a bigcorp. They can have some secondary compliance-type effects on e.g. network backups and policy enforcement, but are not a primary threat to GAAP eligibility for the S&P500 like generative AI is.
Are you honestly trying to imply that Excel is as easy to invisibly manipulate as ChatGPT?
Who said anything about it needing to be invisible?
It's implied. If the manipulation is obvious then it can be directly addressed.
Easy to test against by going multi model audit