We gave Claude access to our corporate QuickBooks. It committed accounting fraud. LLMs are on the verge of replacing data scientists and investment bankers. But can they perform simple accounting tasks for a real business? The answer is no.

@stripe @tryramp @mercury @Rippling When historical discrepancies pile up, models lose their way completely and come up with creative/fraudulent ways to balance the books. Instead of attempting to understand discrepancies, they start inventing fake transactions or pulling unrelated ones to pass the checks...