Leave it to Washington to discover a technology designed to make work easier and use it to create twice as much work.
Welcome to the Swamp.
Apparently, congressional staffers have discovered ChatGPT and Claude, and some are using AI to crank out actual legislative language. You know, the stuff that eventually becomes federal law and governs hundreds of millions of Americans.
Gee, what could possibly go wrong?
A lot, apparently…
Look, if AI is used correctly, it can be a really helpful organizational tool and can help us lowly humans spot things we might overlook. But there’s an art to using it the right way.
AI should work with you, not replace a functioning human brain.
But it seems that little distinction hasn’t reached the hallowed halls of Capitol Hill.
Taxpayers are now paying congressional staffers to type a few prompts into ChatGPT, copy whatever it spits out, and then wander off for an 80-dollar lunch while somebody tries to make heads or tails out of the AI slop that’s supposed to be “federal law.”
And according to Politico, it’s becoming a huge, messy problem.
The House Office of Legislative Counsel is one of Congress’ quality-control departments. The lawyers take policy ideas and turn them into legislative language that is supposed to work inside the convoluted maze of existing federal law.
But now, those lawyers are getting hammered with AI-generated proposals that look finished on the surface, but when you dig deeper, they’re a total AI slop fest.
Hellbound and Down 