{"id":25538,"date":"2026-10-20T07:37:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/dont-be-fooled-the-ai-that-was-supposed-to-save-us-time-is-doing-just-the-opposite-gaby-hinsliff\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T07:37:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:37:51","slug":"dont-be-fooled-the-ai-that-was-supposed-to-save-us-time-is-doing-just-the-opposite-gaby-hinsliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/dont-be-fooled-the-ai-that-was-supposed-to-save-us-time-is-doing-just-the-opposite-gaby-hinsliff\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t be fooled. The AI that was supposed to save us time is doing just the opposite | Gaby Hinsliff"},"content":{"rendered":"

The government says it can transform the state with AI, but it is no match for the resulting stream of machine-generated slop. And we all pay the cost<\/p>\n

Another morning, another avalanche of emails. Even after a guilty cull, my inbox is sitting at well over 7,000, but lately I\u2019ve started subscribing to the Quentin Crisp<\/a> theory of housework: why bother, when after four years or so you stop noticing the accumulating dust? Empty inboxes just fill up again anyway.<\/p>\n

In theory, email was supposed to save hours of meetings, phone calls and standing over photocopiers. Instead, we just spend hours deleting stuff people wouldn\u2019t have bothered telling us if it had meant picking up the phone, but which they can now spam to their entire database at the click of a button. The glorious ease and convenience of being able to reach the world in seconds came, we now know, with the inconvenience of them being able to reach you right back.<\/p>\n

Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist<\/p>\n

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\nThe government says it can transform the state with AI, but it is no match for the resulting stream of machine-generated slop. And we all pay the cost
\nAnother morning, another avalanche of emails. Even after a guilty cull, my inbox is sitting at well over 7,000, but lately I\u2019ve started subscribing to the Quentin Crisp theory of housework: why bother, when after four years or so you stop noticing the accumulating dust? Empty inboxes just fill up again anyway.
\nIn theory, email was supposed to save hours of meetings, phone calls and standing over photocopiers. Instead, we just spend hours deleting stuff people wouldn\u2019t have bothered telling us if it had meant picking up the phone, but which they can now spam to their entire database at the click of a button. The glorious ease and convenience of being able to reach the world in seconds came, we now know, with the inconvenience of them being able to reach you right back.
\nGaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The government says it can transform the state with AI, but it is no match for the resulting stream of machine-generated slop. And we all pay the cost Another morning, another avalanche of emails. Even after a guilty cull, my inbox is sitting at well over 7,000, but lately I\u2019ve started subscribing to the Quentin …<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be fooled. The AI that was supposed to save us time is doing just the opposite | Gaby Hinsliff<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25538"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}