McKinsey's AI Lie: 25,000 'AI Experts' Were Just a NLP Interface on a 35-Year-Old Database — 221 Upvotes

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A r/artificial post (221 upvotes, 46 comments) dissects how McKinsey's widely-reported 25,000 AI experts claim masks the reality: they put a natural language interface on their existing 35-year-old internal knowledge database and issued a press release that every major outlet amplified without scrutiny. The post argues this is a representative pattern where consulting firms rebrand existing tools as AI to justify premium billing and maintain perceived relevance.