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I have seen, on major sites, "news" articles which are clearly not edited or fact checked. I am hearing programmers are using AI as their framework / starting point for code. It is a dilemma for certain, but not new. I remain old (school) and create my own code. I am not above reviewing snippets of code from others for things - which I then follow but not copy/paste. The issue is if whatever is used as the framework contains an unnoticed error, it propagates from something like AI or snippet, as once used by others, it becomes the "norm" rather quickly. None of this is new, we have seen things formerly of mostly trust go away (photo editing). The problem, as I see it, is we now must use (now un)common sense as we cannot automatically believe what we see, read, observe, or are told. As with critical thinking and ethics, we have a severe lack of common sense in society. There are new trusted Uncle Walter sources we can just believe at face value, and with even modest effort, one can find something to back nearly any opinion/side, and claim it is the truth. Times have changed so much, that weeks later, I still struggle to accept I observed great, over the top, service from a used car dealer. Helped someone buy a car from a car rental sales office, and they followed through on every item they stated, even beyond the contract.

My brother is a workaholic. He works 365 days per week and when he was CEO was monitoring activity on Xmas morning. We always joke that if he "retired" and took a 40 hour per week job it would be part time work.

In my humble opinion, the CPA designation is worth all of the headaches. I'm happy I earned the designation (many years ago) and have absolutely no issue with attaining the required CPE. It's a designation that is still in demand today and offers those who have the initials great professional opportunities.

"A lawyer is in trouble after admitting he used ChatGPT to help write court filings that cited six nonexistent cases invented by the artificial intelligence tool. Lawyer Steven Schwartz of the firm Levidow, Levidow, & Oberman "greatly regrets having utilized generative artificial intelligence to supplement the legal research performed herein and will never do so in the future without absolute verification of its authenticity," Schwartz wrote in an affidavit on May 24 regarding the bogus citations previously submitted in US District Court for the Southern District of New York." Unfortunately this is just the beginning. It's already hard enough to decipher what's real and what's fake!