It's time to ask similar questions about many other areas. If ChatGPT can write it by extrapolating from a smallish input, then by definition everything it added is superfluous.
Grant applications are a relatively publicly visible example of this, but there will be dozens of others. Reports of all kinds, especially ones required by contract that no one wants to write, and no one wants to read.
Not necessarily superfluous. It does sort of approach an ideal of picking an application template from a MadLibs catalog and specifying the words for the blanks. I assume something like that goes on anyway, not every doc would be typed from scratch but pasted from a catalog of snippets. However, I expect that attorneys and accountants want the full explication on record.
ML will also take on the task of reading these documents, so you won't have to if you don't want to.
"A 2023 Nature survey of 1,600 researchers found that more than 25% use AI to help them write manuscripts and that more than 15% use the technology to help them write grant proposals."
Thus, these numbers do not really support the conclusion, which is instead pushed forward by anecdotal evidence from the author. I wish at least Nature would be a little more diligent.
Grant applications are a relatively publicly visible example of this, but there will be dozens of others. Reports of all kinds, especially ones required by contract that no one wants to write, and no one wants to read.