Summary: Consultation in the EPO became so farcical that management basically denied staff's input (in defiance of the EPO's rules/spirit) and when challenged on the matter it responded, very harshly, whereupon staff representatives themselves were painted as the problem
At the end of the day, people who know their job offer more useful information, whereas LLMs waste people's time (typically an 'externality' to the entity deploying chatbots)
