[tim333]

These things get checked pretty carefully by humans. They can get sued for fraud. But some of the future estimates can be swayed by hallucinations, both AI and Elon Musk etc.

You can also game things a bit like Anthropic is showing better figures just now due to an introductory discount on getting compute from xAI. Those tend to fade out with time.

[gymbeaux]

Sure but there’s no way Enron was the last Enron. Also keep in mind something can be “legal” and still misleading to shareholders. I’m sure there are loopholes, some of which may have been reintroduced by Republicans in the last 20 years.