A report reveals that government agencies spent over $180 million on responding to official information requests in recent years, prompting calls for increased transparency and cost-efficiency through AI tools.
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Government agencies are being urged to use more AI as cost spiral on handling official information act requests. So more than 180 million dollars was spent in the 2425 financial gear, as people try to find out some information and the bureaucrats wandered around trying to get it. That is three times as much money on four times as many requests as a decade earlier. So it's taken off. Hello. Do the figures surprise you, or is this just was it predictable considering uh the lack of transparency from the government and the curiosity of journalists?
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