I've definitely seen this, I have a theory as to how this kind of thing actually would affect AI predictions since people seem to only focus on the pure-productivity enhancing effects of AI and discounting the fact that a large portion of work was never productive to begin with...
It’s hard to evaluate or even define “fake” work from any kind of data-driven perspective since you can always take the stance that it accomplishes some unobservable goal and is therefore done for a good reason. I think a lot of people don’t believe it exists for this reason, but as basically anyone that’s worked a corporate middle manager job knows, it definitely does it exist.
Seems like you’re part of the group of companies that is actually trying to do real, actual work, so yeah… seems like AI is going to help you and do things that weren’t done before. My point is that a LOT of “work” is not like this in large, mostly white collar organizations where productivity is difficult to evaluate.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47347983