We have our weekly meeting on Monday. I’m halfway through the report, but I can’t figure out how to continue. Give it a listen.

Aren’t you always the fastest at writing reports? What happened?

Last week, our leader told us to use AI to produce a hundred short-video scripts in one day. We gritted our teeth and worked on them for a week, but the client sent them back three times.

Three times? Were the AI-generated scripts really that problematic?

At first glance, they looked pretty decent, but on closer inspection they were full of problems, and we still had to revise them word by word. In the end, a few colleagues stayed up late and wrote ten scripts themselves before the client finally approved them—barely. And then the leader asked me to say at the weekly meeting that our team had already achieved “AI-driven efficiency gains throughout the entire workflow.”

Isn’t that just putting on a show for the leader? We saved an hour by using AI, then spent three hours fixing things afterward. Whose efficiency actually improved?

I understand what you mean. But everyone at the company is talking about AI now. If I say it isn’t useful, the leader will think our team can’t keep up and doesn’t know how to use the tools.

It’s not as if you’re saying AI is useless. Just make it clear which parts really save time and which still require human effort. Include the client’s revision comments too—that will be more convincing than anything. Otherwise, if the leader asks for two hundred scripts next time, it’ll be the same people working overtime.

You’re right. AI gets the credit, while my colleagues get the overtime. Even I can’t stomach that. Fine, I’ll write it honestly. It’s just that the leader definitely won’t look happy after hearing it on Monday.