UK employment tribunal claims surged 39% in one year as citizens flood

Instead of saving billions of pounds, public adoption of ChatGPT is clogging British courts with machine-generated paperwork. Former civil servant Sam Freedman reports that employment tribunal cases in England, Scotland, and Wales rose 39% in 1 year as claimants use ChatGPT to draft complaints.

Judges must manually untangle filings that cite fabricated legal precedents to check whether a real grievance is buried underneath. Whitehall advisers say ministries are similarly swamped by automated Freedom of Information requests and chatbot-drafted letters to Members of Parliament.

Columnist Gaby Hinsliff, facing 7,000 unread emails and comparing the mess to Quentin Crisp's 4-year housework rule, notes that shortcuts become bottlenecks once everyone uses them, just as central London traffic slowed to 7 miles per hour in 2018.