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.

You know that saying about, if something seems too good to be true, it usually is?

Yes Gemini is more accurate and more detailed than Chat. I don’t use them for work though.

Char gives opinions and then contradicts itself when you tell it it’s wrong. It did write some good David Bowie style lyrics though.

I work in tech and yes AI is very useful! From wording emails to senior stakeholders to suggesting different ways of working for my engineers etc

The results are only as good as the idiot inputting the ideas so I am not worried about my job, just worried about more people finding out how I was able to programme two excel reports simultaneously with very advanced formulas and still finish work today at 3pm 🤣

I also pay for different ai models on competitive products and have learnt to become its master. All on my own time, whilst my work and clients get a lot more personal time with me, thinking of ideas, collaborating etc.

"Some colleagues in legal and fraud where they are processing loads of information (for example emails) for investigations and court cases are saying it's helpful in sifting out the important stuff from the rubbish."

Banks and credit card companies using AI for things like fraud detection works really well (generally speaking).

I can also imagine where there are thousands of emails to sift through in a legal case then it really can help.

However, if not used properly then it really can lead people astray.

There was a case back in April in the High Court where a barrister had used AI to come up with a list of fake cases - including one that purported to be a Court of Appeal case.

A local authority was opposing a homelessness claim. They lost the claim but were successful in getting a wasted costs order against the claimant's solicitors and barrister.

The barrister had come up with five fake cases.

There's an interesting article about it here:

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/judge-condemns-lawyers-who-produced-fake-citations-to-court

and a link to the judgment here

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2025/1040.html

While AI is writing your emails, your boss is writing your redundancy notice.

I love that it helps me decipher emails we receive from families who are barely literate.

And I.love that I can make notes through a call as someone talks to me and I can ask copilot to help me organise my notes.

There are some huge time saves with it

Interns are supposed to do the fact-check donkey work and then have the conclusions and inferences they produce checked over by someone with more experience. They're not supposed to make up fake citations; that would be a sackable offence in most organisations.

I was finishing work early even before AI came along 😂

Really?

Are you my employer?

Not so far - it is working amazingly

Yes I will keep enjoying the sun in the garden ☀

I have my own business that I have been running on the side for years. Always pays to have a back up 😉

I've found it good for writing marketing campaigns and great for doing menu plans and cleaning schedules. It has been rubbish at writing about art. It makes things up, for example, taking the title of an artwork that an artist has made but then describing it completely incorrectly (I believe they're called ai hallucinations).

Me too. Was just thinking the same.

This swill was definitely ai written

I’m the same OP I run a business, writing out proposals filling in forms, drafting emails workflow and presentations webinars etc I can get the backbone done in no time and then flesh out the docs.

We also run socials for a few clients and use AI to research, benchmark, check hashtags, define themes and generate posts. We then redraft and create assets but it’s saving so much time and money (on suppliers)

We share our AI policy with our clients and ensure they align and where possible we can pass on the time savings.

You absolutely shouldn't be sharing personal or sensitive data with ChatGPT or similar tools as it's not confidential or secure and it can use your data (including sharing it and for training LLMs) in any way it likes once you've entered it. I do hope you've amended your settings to opt for temporary conversations and you've disabled the "Improve the model for everyone" data control.

I agree, I didn’t realise for ages a colleague was using AI, I just couldn’t make much sense of their emails.

What got communicated by their emails was “they don’t know what they are doing, they have zero people skills and too much time on their hands”.

Probably a perfectly decent and probably skilled person lost credibility in the team due to their over reliance on AI.

OP seems like they are using it a bit more carefully, but it’s a cautionary tale.

You really have to question the intelligence and critical thinking skills of people who believe things without verifying whether they're true or right, don't you?
The core issue isn't with AI itself, but with humans who lack the mental discipline to think independently, do their own research, or apply what they should have learned in school or university. It shows how much awful the education system of this country is when people come out not being able to see what's right and what's truth.
It's not AI's fault that people fail to use it wisely.
After all, AI is developed by highly trained and educated professionals who are doing their jobs extremely well.

ChatGPT - aka "autocomplete on steroids" - is a bullshit machine, in the philosopher Harry Frankfurt's sense of the word "bullshit".

It works great, until the day it lies to you about something important and you don't notice. And then hopefully you will blame the machine, although I suspect that a lot of people will just rationalise it away.

Have a watch of this.

Then read this https://thebullshitmachines.com/

Then stop using ChatGPT for anything other than an entry point to real knowledge. A place to start your search, not to end it.

Right?

OP is sat in her garden thinking she's won, but not only does it proves her role is likely redundant in the long term, but she not working the hours she is paid for.

The strongest workers in my team have never said 'oh, I finished my tasks for today, I'm gonna go tan'. They're not waiting for the next task to fall in their lap. They've done their work, and they've found the next task that needs doing, they've utilised any extra time to start or complete the next task. It's basic respect for the business you work for, given the hours they pay you for as per your contract.

No it wasn't -t was written by moi, I am afraid. Sadly on my phone as I now see that it is typotastic. I was just trying to be helpful and help people understand the concept and see the potential.

Being rude and dismissive does not make you look clever, btw. It just makes you look like you struggle to grasp new concepts. Ps remember the spinning jenny?

Well I totally believe you.

I think it’s a great tool. It’s automation and ultimately will cost some people their jobs. Not sure if it’s a revolution or evolution, so can’t say how many jobs will be lost.

For fun, I asked Chatgpt to defend itself

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the health and safety womble in our organisation used AI for a SOP/ code of practice for some operations we carry out and presented it to a management meeting, I asked where the rest of the document was as his contained 2 pages and had he read the COP guidelines from the relevant Gov website. he admitted to using AI to write the document and is no longer employed