‘It started as a trickle(涓涓细流；少量) in 2024 and now it’s an onslaught(猛攻；大量涌入).” Hollie Wickens, a senior caseworker(个案工作者) in a Labour MP’s office, is explaining the daily reality of dealing with surging volumes of(激增的……数量) artificial intelligence-generated correspondence.
“2024 年还只是涓涓细流，现在已经变成洪水猛兽。”霍莉·威肯斯是某工党议员办公室的高级个案工作者，她正在讲述每天应对激增的 AI 生成信件的现实。
“Half the emails we receive are some form of AI,” she says, adding that this has made requests and complaints much more complex and time-consuming(耗时的) to read and deal with, despite her decade of experience(尽管她有十年经验) in the role. “It is definitely more taxing(费神的；繁重的).”
“我们收到的邮件有一半是某种形式的 AI 生成的，”她说，并补充道，尽管她在这个岗位上已有十年经验，但这让请求和投诉的阅读和处理变得复杂得多、耗时得多。“确实更费神了。”
At the start of this decade, applying for a job, writing a complaint or objecting to a local planning application(反对地方规划申请) typically required considerable effort(相当大的努力): time to research a topic, fill in a form or write a formal-sounding(听起来正式的) email, with specialist knowledge often also required.
在本十年初，申请工作、写投诉信或反对地方规划申请通常需要付出相当大的努力：要花时间研究话题、填写表格或写一封听起来正式的邮件，往往还需要专业知识。
‘Everyone’s got a free lawyer’
“现在人人都有免费律师”
Westminster inundated
威斯敏斯特不堪重负