The results are in: According to their own reports, some federal agencies are already testing AI in their FOIA offices. Many more are already using machine learning functions baked into current document search and discovery tools or plan to make use of AI in the future.
Wow, an actual use case for AI! Lol
This seems like a great option. FOI requests have always been strangled by staffing, request volume, and sheer amount of documents the government has. As long as it’s not a chatbot vomiting word soup pulled from the documents, but an actual indexing program (or programs) presenting the documents themselves, which is what this seems to be about, I think it sounds great!
Oh great. Not only do you have to deal with people’s lack of caring, lack of knowledge and not wanting to work, but now you’ll have to argue that the tool they will implement is WRONG and that you’ll need them to now do their actual jobs.
AI can be great, but it just sucks like everything else.
