As part of my job I write a lot of grant applications.
The EU is just asking people in current EU projects for feedback on their (admittedly garbage, massively complex) process. Here's a screenshot from the questionaire:
The EU grant application process is a shit show demanding you to fill in all kinds of bullshit documents often at a level of specificity that nobody can really give in good conscience at the point of project application. But what would "AI tools" do?
Help generate the garbage text. Okay so who does this help?
- the applicants are handing in even more text they've hardly read nor understood potentially tanking their application
- the reviewers have to wade through a lot of text that nobody has written, that doesn't mean anything and that by definition does not help evaluating proposals.
The fucking brainrot runs so deep.
JUST FUCKING SIMPLIFY THE APPLICATION PROCESS AND FORMS FOR FUCKS SAKE.
@tante as someone writing a lot of grants myself, I agree completely.
What actually happens in the end is the t you have the last of your new employees sit down with chatgpt and write the whole thing.
You then revise it, point out a few very obvious mistakes and keep going until it appears to be decent.
I remember submitting projects 100 pages long where 2 or 3 would actually have sufficed.
I understand asking for time estimates and budget allocation, but even that does not require all the detail that is often required...
