Skip to content
Sunday, 8 November 2026Vol. 1 · No. 1 · Price: one objection
The Object Daily

We object. On principle.

Section

Technology

The future, and why it is a mistake.

1 objection · disagreement 4 out of 5, more than the rest of the paper (3.5) · latest Sunday, 8 November 2026

Technology09:40 GMTDisagreement: 4 out of 5, strongly opposed
The section's latest

Machine-written complaints should be answered by machines, and Britain should take the afternoon off

The nation's inboxes are filling with chatbot-composed grievances. Rather than filter them out, we should hand the entire correspondence to the machines and leave the room quietly.

Everyone else
Chatbot-generated complaints are an abuse of the system that wastes public money and must be filtered out.
The Object Daily
The flood is the first public-service reform in a generation that requires no staff at all, and it should be completed rather than resisted.
I must object.Read the objection →

The section's charts

The Object Daily Statistics OfficeFeels right. If you don't check.How a typical complaints team spends its week, before automation
  • Reading complaints71%
  • Typing 'sorry to hear'22%
  • Everything else, lunch7%

Ninety-three per cent of the week could be handed to a machine without anyone noticing, least of all the complainant.

Source: Estimate made this morning on the back of a council tax bill, The Object Daily · Satire

From “Machine-written complaints should be answered by machines, and Britain should take the afternoon off” →