77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds

Adding AI is like adding a lane to a crowded street. It will move more cars per hour, but the street will soon have the same traffic jams as before.

Workers will be as busy and as overworked as before.

Plus, even though people theoretically do more, it is not really more. For example Digital Signage - before generative AI you would put in some text, a clipart or a stock image and call it a day. Now one may be expected to polish the text with AI plus generate a more fitting image. Does it make a nicer Digital Signage? Sure. Will productivity actually go up? I doubt it.

First part of the article sounds like what I'd expect.

The second part makes me wonder if this research was sponsored by some company which provides "Prompt Engineering" training.

I use GPT and CoPilot at work and they've definitely made my life easier and me more productive. I guess that it depends on what management expects of the employees. It's not a magic bullet.

Also freelancers are saving the day? Whelp, looks like full time jobs are on the chopping block then. And I wish that this was restricted to the American corporate hellscape but unfortunately their bullshit is like a bad infection that spreads across the world.