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New post: "Drowning in slop" Large parts of the state are being increasingly overwhelmed with complaints, appeals, objections.... written by AI. It's gumming up every process. Britain is particularly vulnerable. How bad has it got and what can we do about it? samf.substack.com/p/drowning-i...

Having talked to dozens of public servants about this, I suspect a more fundamental rethink may be required.

A shift of default public service service design from 'declarative claim' to 'proactive confirmation', whereby gov knows enough about you (with consent) to make you an offer proactively not demand you make a claim via declaration. Tax returns heading this way already.

Any remaining policy grey areas or space left for judgement of individual circumstances will be codified away. Not a good thing given complexity of humanity, but sadly probably inevitable.

The right to 'an appeal' will get severely curtailed since AI will appeal by default. Those appeals that remain will require payment or other friction (lawyers etc). This will be bad and will cause much suffering.

The EU's AI law requires AI companies to watermark AI generated text. OpenAI Very begrudgingly agreed this week.. They all hate it (liability), but were we in the EU it would give options to explore. Although the open models won't use it, so...

And I fear your competent organised fraud gang will be building itself a big open LLM server rack or two, with the guardrails turned off.