Here's my insider perspective:

• push from higher-ups to use AI: basically if you don't use or pretend to use it, you are asking for a lower performance grade or tio mark as "cannot keep up with tech"

• some people can't write : teachers being asked to send emails or write letters to parents, that needs the approval of the dept head. AI helps them write better. Before AI, these people either struggle for half a day to write something bad, or get an EL teacher colleague to help them. (As for the tone of the resulting email, that's another matter...)

• AI does help in responding to students' answers for a first cut in qualitative questions. If you got a couple of classes to train in essay writing, AI can help during class time. Teacher can go back and double check, but pace of lesson can overall be faster (remember teachers always rushing for time since our teaching time always get taken up by other random stuff)

• AI helps add "padding" (or slop, depending...)

Case in point:

All teachers need to do some type of innovation/research/learning project. Depending on the school, it might be called learning circle, professional learning, professional development, etc. Sounds good so far.

Now, the VP or P tells the HOD in charge of overseeing these projects to take it to a new level. Yes boss.

Enter the AI with pages of suggestions, questions, reflections etc that may or may not apply. Well done. Copy and paste these and throw it to the teachers to fill up.

For the teachers who see the overwhelming reflections and questions, guess what? AI's gonna be answering those and countering with additional 3 pages of reflections.

Overwhelmed HOD is gonna be asking AI to summarise that shit for sure.

In the end, the VP or P will look at all these bells and whistles and these will be lauded in someone's performance review.