Not just burnout, opportunism features with several users I've spoken with. The level of ignorance surrounding ChatGPT is staggering.

One egregious use I know of was a developer who used it to write software to analyse a government dataset despite their department having put in place specific and targeted restrictions specifically against any such activities.

Their workaround was to use their private email to exfiltrate data and subsequently introduce the code.

Their rationale was that it didn't harm anyone and their ICT department would vet any code. They were not concerned about this private data showing up on the ChatGPT public log, nor were they concerned about the accuracy of their code.

I think that this is just the tip of the iceberg and I think it's going to take a serious data breach of identifying information before people lose their jobs over this type of misuse.

Of course burnout is a real thing and most of us are increasingly overburdened. Most work just seems to suck more and more and the lines between personal life and work life keep blurring. Nonetheless, this AI use would happen with or without burnout - it's just opportunism. Also, Who the hell is supposed to do this training the article refers to? Does your office already have an AI tsar that could train people on best use? I haven't seen much of that yet.

Yup. Throw in multiple levels of contractors in various counties and guaranteed AI is being used. (Think subcontractor's employee using AI to keep up.)

AI is a great spying tool.

... according to a work trend index published Wednesday by Microsoft

Yeah, I'm going to go out on a limb here and call bullshit. No one is turning to AI to alleviate burnout. The only tasks these LLM tools can reliability accomplish aren't worth using an LLM for.