to find that ChatGPT is saving me tons of time at work?

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I have so much more work-life balance now thanks to ChatGPT that is making mincemeat of the mundane parts of the job. It will proof read, put together emails, produce critiques, minutes and actions points, analyse finances all in the matter of seconds and much more.

Work was done by 2pm so I had a lovely afternoon in the sun because all my tasks got completed so quickly.

And no, AI can't take over my job completely as it involves critical face to face interaction and other specialist skills which AI cannot do.

I've been experimenting because I want to learn what it can do and how we could use it. ChapGPT seems marginally better than copilot but we have concluded that we can only use copilot for work stuff because it stays within our tenant.

It is occasionally useful but I'm not finding it that great so far. It can be useful as a starting point but I find you have to rewrite most of it as the content isn't that great and it's obviously AI generated. And its analytical capabilities seem limited so far.

I'd say it saves a bit of time, but not a lot at the moment. I'm aware that, to some extent, that might be because I haven't learnt how to use it effectively yet. But I think it also depends on your job role and on how fussy you are about the quality of what you put out.

It's surprising how many people are missing the point entirely when criticizing AI.

The original poster (OP) has repeatedly stated that she thoroughly checks for errors, verifies facts, and ensures accuracy before sharing anything. Please, take the time to actually read her posts.

It's frustrating to see that AI tools like ChatGPT would have read and analyzed the content multiple times, while some here aren’t even reading it once with care.

I also use AI in my work, and I apply critical thinking to verify everything before making important decisions. It's not about blindly trusting AI — it's about using it responsibly. Let's use our heads before jumping to conclusions.

Would your org’s data policy not be contravened?

What is the benefit of the paid for version vs the free one? Sorry if that’s a stupid q!

@ThisTicklishFatball But the point that other posters make and that you seem to have missed, that her employers may not be thrilled to keep on paying her for a full day's work that she's not actually doing seems highly relevant.

Lots of words but saying nothing

Words salad.

2 words add up to the Most you need to say about ai.

We’ve got an internal system that I was very cynical about…. then I started using it and it’s saving all the heavy lifting, and means I actually have time to do a better job.

Difficult to get rid of the feeling I’m training my replacement though 😂

While it's understandable that employers expect employees to work a full day, productivity should not be conflated with hours spent. If an employee uses ChatGPT to streamline or automate parts of their job—thereby completing high-quality work more efficiently—it reflects innovation and adaptability, not laziness or dishonesty.
In fact, many industries are embracing AI tools to increase efficiency. If someone uses ChatGPT to finish tasks faster, they can redirect that saved time toward other responsibilities, professional development, or creative problem-solving. Rather than being a liability, such an employee could be seen as a valuable asset who leverages technology to maximize impact.
The core issue shouldn’t be whether every minute is filled, but whether the work gets done well, consistently, and with value added. As long as performance remains strong, employers might do better to rethink rigid time-based expectations in favor of outcome-based evaluation.

I know OP it's absolutely brilliant

Does anyone seriously believe that we will be allowed to keep the time that AI saves us?

We won't, because capitalism by its nature will continually optimise to maximise profit.

It's intrinsic to the system - if capitalism doesn't constantly expand, it will die.

Despite what any of the existing political parties tell us, globalism/neo-liberalism has ensured that there's now no way to harness capitalism and humanise its impacts.

It's a Hydra that no party, nation or social-democratic cultural bloc can ever control again.

The only humane approach is to stop pretending that liberal democracy is the solution to global capitalism, and acknowledge that it has been its enabler.

Those of us that care about humans might have to accept that democracy as it's been practiced - and corrupted - over the past 100 years has failed us, and start thinking about other ways to re-set and re-group.

Copilot/GPT saves me loads of time and has drastically improved my productivity. It has given me mock interviews (GPT premium voice thingy), written statements of work, drafted emails, helped me write strategy papers. Yes it makes mistakes but so do people. It’s like having a very skilled and very fast junior member of staff! I love it.

Gemini pro had a much better level of detail. Much more fleshed out response. Every paragraph /point was referenced with a link to the article/website it got the evidence from. It was accurate (I have definitely had chat gpt make references up, including making up quotes from guidelines). It made some excellent suggestions of stuff I might want to consider rather then just answering my prompt.

YANBU to use ChatGPT if your employer know about it and is fine with it. But, assuming you have a contacted number of hours and that your employers are not complete idiots, they’ll likely make some redundancies or aim to reduce your hours in the longer term.

Honestly it depends what you’re using it for. I’m neurodiverse. At times I struggle to explain things in a way a normal human would understand because it doesn’t matter how much I doublecheck or proofread, it comes out as an essay and I cannot work out how to cut unimportant information because everything feels important.
AI has been really helpful organising my thoughts and putting what is generally an incoherent blob into an email normal folk can understand. I’m not asking it to research stuff so I don’t have to trust it’s not making stuff up and I read it over to make sure it says what I was trying to. It helps. I have to communicate with doctors a lot (personal life not work stuff) and oh dear god it helps.

My DH made a good point about AI the other day - he was pointing out the fact that nobody ever really asked to have AI. It just... appeared... as a natural part of the evolution/progression of the Internet, technology etc. It's a bit scary how much people are all getting on board with it (or not, in some cases).

I've used it a bit in my job, but it's not perfect. It helps edit etc but it doesn't have the same human experience or elements in the results. It's kind of slightly bland, but semi-professional sounding. To the untrained eye, it could be used to write technical information etc but in my industry, it'd be obvious if any abbreviations or specific jargon was misused.

You do realise you sound like someone bucking against the invention of the spreadsheet because it will cut jobs in filing. It will. Of course it will. But pretending it doesn’t exist won’t save your job. Learning how to use it and being able to put that on your CV might help though

You genuinely couldn't figure out where the fabric conditioner goes in your washing machine? 😳

And sod the environmental impact, eh? I guess we’ll save on salaries to pay for water and energy. Win win!

The point you are missing is that the OP isn't the only person reading this thread and its responses and people who are reading the thread and thinking 'ooh maybe I should use it in my work' absolutely need to know that AI makes shit up and lies about it when asked. Quite a lot of the time.

The OP may be double-checking every single bit of AI generated output but you can 100% guarantee that other people aren't. And we know they aren't because it has already collapsed court cases.

People shouldn't be using it for therapy either. Weird stories coming out about how it has told people to kill themselves (which it absolutely shouldn't do), or convinced them that they're living in a simulation.

I think lazy people with little talent or original thought are relying on it. Some of us have a sense of personal and professional pride in producing original work from our own brains!

AI is saving me a salary. Sad to say but it is.

It saves me so much time. It’s frightening really as it can do quite a bit of my role, but most of some of my employees jobs.

Me? No, I use AI for work pretty much every day - often many times per day. I don’t then chill in the garden from 2pm though - plenty of other (work) things to do.

(Edit to clarify I meant work!)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/06/high-court-tells-uk-lawyers-to-urgently-stop-misuse-of-ai-in-legal-work

You can ask it for all references and check them.

Treat it like a super bright, high achieving intern.

I work for a large global company and have recently rolled out an in house AI product for a workstream. Chatgpt is the LLM behind it. It is an absolute game changer. The efficiencies are incredible, saving our core users around 1.5-2 hours a day in admin tasks. Our messaging is that it is like a good grad employee, check the work over. I use it for everything. Building content for decks, analysing research. Hallucinations improved drastically since the end on 2024.

As we see it, the first level of staff will go, but new jobs are being created too. HR, Quality, Finance, Legal and admin roles are all disrupted. Attrition in those areas will come but we will have growth in tech and SMEs and new roles will develop in data management and governance.

Copilot is expensive and not developing at a rate that we like, so we are exploring building on our own tech stack and dropping it.

I speak at conferences with other tech companies about issues, change management, governance and the future. Early adopters are pulling ahead, it isn't going away and will just become more integrated. User maturity is also on the up, just generally, in society.

I use it in my home life for travel, advice, research and planning. I upload many documents into each of my 'projects' to help with the 'you get out what you put in ' mindset and to help reduce unhelpful fillers/ hallucinations.

The best prompts have context and rules contained. Imagine you are explaining your request to someone who hasn't met, you and cannot see you. The aim is to remove as many of the assumptions as you can. For example, for work, I would start with something cheesy like 'imagine you are a world class director, rolling out x product, for x subgroup with the aim of xx. Your core messaging is y. Attached are key stakeholders. Please generate a comms and trainng plan to support this structure. Break I down to short, medium and long term.

Follow on by asking it to look for gaps and consider other options. Ask ot to predict possible.roadblocks -you will be blown away. It will give you days of work in 20 minutes and then you can use a pot AI such as Beautiful.AI to quickly generate great slides, easily.