I mean.. it's software. It's only as good as you leverage it.
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2025
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UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost
(www.theregister.com)
"speeding up some tasks yet making others slower due to lower quality outputs"
So use it for the tasks that were made more efficient, and stop using it for the ones that slowed down or were low quality.
I think they mean that the output that makes task X more efficient slows down task Y that uses the previous output.
If that's what they meant then it's bad writing.
Given that it's people who work for the government, expectations are already low, if no training is provided results will be even worse and last but not least, if the product is absolutely crap, why would you continue using it?
Seeing a big uptake in use in the education sector. Teachers paying for their own ChatGPT pro license to lesson plan etc.
Can't comment at this point if that's right or wrong, you hope the teachers using it would identify hallucinations etc. But you can see there is already a change occurring.