It’s not just the volume, but also the quality of that increased volume, I don’t have the data but would bet it’s actually very time consuming to review that 40% increase (because the content will look plausible and confident but will likely have mistake). I cannot imagine being the poor folks having to process all that
We recently recruited two developers. Our recruitment process involves asking three questions before the interview stage. Almost every single answer was written by AI - they all followed the same format and presented the answer in the same way, customised to the applicant.
It was mind-numbing. The non-ai applicants were obvious and really stood out as the best answers.