Lass dich nicht täuschen. Die KI, die uns Zeit sparen sollte, tut genau das Gegenteil
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/20/ai-supposed-to-save-time-opposite-government-uk
Lass dich nicht täuschen. Die KI, die uns Zeit sparen sollte, tut genau das Gegenteil
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/20/ai-supposed-to-save-time-opposite-government-uk
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>In a
Substack post last week, the former civil servant Sam Freedman noted that governments around the world seem to be experiencing unusual surges in complaints, requests and responses to regulatory and official bodies since the adoption of ChatGPT. It’s the same story
in the courts, with
employment tribunal cases in England, Scotland and Wales reportedly rising by 39% in a year thanks in part to claimants using AI to draft claims, while magistrates and judges face a wave of people who can’t afford lawyers using ChatGPT to build cases that often don’t make sense. And all of this needs patient disentangling by a human, on the grounds that just because a defendant is citing precedents that don’t exist, it doesn’t mean there isn’t a genuine grievance buried in there somewhere.
Mostly what this really says is that the system (of government, of justice) is set up (via bureaucracy) to discourage the average person from standing up for themselves, and if they can, the system is unable to handle the load.
I made a picture. This is peak ai.
We need to restrict LLMs. The amount of mess they are creating far exceeds the milquetoast benefits that are sold as guaranteed improvements to society. This shit is underbaked and overused.
Anecdotally, can confirm. Everyone at my work is just doing more scattershot bullshit that doesn’t actually sum to meaningful progress and not talking to each other about it.
Who thought AI was going to save us??
Nobody is fooled, not even the rich grifters grifting all the money
My boss wants me to automate my job. I am a creature artist in games. He was inspired by Tim Sweeney. He says he doesn’t “want” to fire anyone and that he “thinks” about how this stuff will affect us each time there’s a new technology change.
He wants me to use one AI to generate the concept and turnaround, another AI to generate the model, one AI to retopologize the model, one AI for UVs or do this by hand if it’s not good enough (awesome, only the most tedious, least creative step) use Claude for weights and fix it if it’s bad, then feed another AI model for textures.
Right now for what we need I can get a very basic creature character cracked out in about 6 hours from start to engine implementation. The complex ones will take a week and a half. I had figured out a workflow with no AI that works. I also cost money. More money than AI.
This isn’t going to make me more productive. I didn’t become a character artist to click through menus, so I’m looking to do a career change but in this market is a real struggle. Don’t even know where to go from here.
Edit; a word
I used to work with a guy like this, you’d spend half your day fixing his mistakes.
The courts too are complaining about an increased workload driven by AI. Filings and statements have become immensely complex and extremely long compared to those authored by human legal professionals. All of this must then be read and processed in a legally valid manner.
AI is about to make Sov Cit “paper terrorism” 100x worse.
It’s saving me loads of time lol
Well it’s saving me time. Don’t know what the rest of people are using it for. Sounds like a skill issue, which I guess is good for job security lol
Wow, who would have thought? /s
I’m consulting for a large Fortune 500 healthcare client rebuilding their website and app. They leaned in so hard to AI to create their core documentation, requirements, test cases, code, etc. They bragged about pushing out a half a million lines of AI generated and tested code each sprint.
And guess what happened? AI code was rubbish. AI hallucinations made test cases, PRD’s and requirements completely inaccurate and untrustworthy.
The only solution from leadership? Go through EVERYTHiNG line by line and manually review/fix everything. Keep in mind, this is the same C-level who made AI their entire 2026 strategy. When I asked the chief product officer the strategy/vision for AI….they said they didn’t care, but just to make sure people went “wow” when they saw it demoed at a conference. That was it. That was the CPO’s AI strategy for one of the largest healthcare companies in the USA. For their clients to go “wow” at a conference.
In the product triangle there is speed, cost and quality, and you can only choose 2. But you should always have 2. With AI, this build has 0. It wasn’t fast, it wasn’t quality, and it wasn’t cheap due to rework caused by AI. Uneducated pompous tech leadership going all in on AI with no risk identification and mitigation around the tech is quickly destroying the ability to create good products. You thought enshitification was bad before? Just wait…
It’s been said from like 2 ydas ago.
Gee I never saw THAT coming 🙄
No capitalist is going to pay you to sit around and do nothing. If there are any time savings to be had, then you’ll be given more work. It will likely be the work of your former coworker who they just fired because they believe the AI replaced them, when all it did was create a less reliable copy that can only do part of their workload.
>Historically, humans have always learned to develop ways around problems of our own making. We have spam filters for email, congestion charges to keep cars out of cities, and in the long term we could well figure out what kind of frictions we need to put back in the system to make it possible to live with the impact of AI.
The „friction“ that kept it „under control“ was inconvenience. FOIA requests were a pain in the ass to get right and submit. That was the constraint — the friction would result in you only getting replies from „serious“ individuals.
I used to be an HOA board member, and I know how to „solve“ this for the most part: require some sort of in-person action for each submission. Like a phone call.
People will submit tons of feedback written by AI, but they won’t show up to committee meetings or leave messages on voicemails.
In the case of FOIA-like requests, Government could give every electronic FOIA submission a submission number.
Then you (not an AI agent) must call, by phone, and talk to a human at the Government office (not an AI agent) about your request, using that submission number, to „validate your request“ or whatever, before it gets processed.
No phone call? Your request sits stale until you call.
The friction of personal action being required, that’s enough to keep 99%+ of people from doing something.
I spent 5 years on my HOA board. Anytime a neighbor complained to me about an issue, I said „please email me about it so I have the story straight, otherwise I can’t follow-up on it.“
Not ONCE in 5 years did a neighbor ever follow that conversation up with an email to me.
Jevon’s Paradox. Making something faster to do just means now people do even more of it… enough to make up for the saved time and then something. Even genuine productivity gains never translate into saved time, just into more output for more work.
True but notice how this article goes on to attack freedom of information. There is always an agenda and this journo is just floating the idea that the govt are going to use the eventual demise of AI as an excuse to remove hard won rights.
Interestingly Blair brought in Freedom of information and said it was his one mistake. Also interestingly his son is very big into AI.
Remember when crypto was supposed to be the end of financial system as we know it? 1 year bro trust me
How would the AI saving us time make money off us? For something to be profitable it has to capture our attention, not release it
There are countless scientific studies according to which it does save time, but an opinion piece about AI increasing certain workloads means it doesn’t save time?
Did we think it was supposed to save us?
Many „time saving“ inventions are ruined by greed. They time saved is rarely given back to the worker, instead the expectation is the worker just does more work in the same amount of time. Often this „time saving“ results in a lower quality outcome, an employee that’s more stressed because they have to manage more information even if the work is faster, and the loss of jobs since now one employee can do the same work as many.
Another day, another r/technology post coping about AI. Thank god this place is just a bubble.
I run a small business. Ai slop website inquiries, spam emails, texts, and phone calls take up a ridiculous portion of my day at this point. I suppose I could get Ai assistant to deal with it all for me…
Who told you it was supposed to save you time?
The “consumer side” is very clearly just for data harvesting and propaganda
Why would billionaires want you to save time?
Just make botting services illegal and set liabilities on those botting. This is a political problem that governments are not willing to tackle because they use it themselves for influence peddling.
I use AI every day.
AI makes me 10X faster. Maybe 20X.
The reason I’m working harder is because this is so much fucking fun. It’s like flying.
Uptick in people demanding accountability from government because they now have the ability to get it = AI is bad?
The legal and governement systems in America are calibrated to keep people from using them. It takes too much time to wade through regulations that people are supposed to follow and seek enforcement.