Learn English FASTER With the NEWS | English Reading Practice

In this lesson.

We're going to make.

Reading the newspaper in English.

Fun and easy, because we're going to read it.

Together and you're going to learn.

All the important vocabulary, grammar, structures and pronunciation that.

You need to know to understand the.

Story.

Welcome

back to JForrest English, Of course.

I'm Jennifer now.

Let's get started.

1st I'll read the.

Headline.

The employees secretly.

Using AI at work.

So this article is talking about artificial.

Intelligence AI, AI.

Now notice the headline.

This isn't technically.

A full sentence.

The employees secretly using.

AI at work.

It's more of an incomplete sentence.

Because it implies that.

This article is about.

The employee secretly using.

AI at work.

That would be the.

Full.

Sentence, but in headlines they often will delete.

Information just to make it shorter, I wrote that.

For you, now let's also talk about employees, because sometimes I hear students confuse

employees and employers.

An employer that is your company or.

Your boss.

The employer is.

The one who pays?

For the.

Work to be done?

Who directs?

The work the employee is the.

One doing the work, so they're the workers.

So when you hear employer think of a company or a boss, and when you hear employee, think

of a worker and hopefully that will help.

You not confuse these two.

The employees secretly using.

AI at work.

Now, secretly, this is.

An adverb because it modifies the.

Verb.

And when you do something secretly, it means that.

You don't tell anyone you're doing it, and you don't want anyone to know you're doing

it either.

I wrote that here for you.

Now the opposite of doing something secretly would be.

Doing something openly.

When you do something openly, everyone knows you're.

Doing it, you don't try to hide it.

And you?

Share it publicly so there could also be employees who are.

Openly using AI at work.

Which means their boss knows they're.

Doing it the other coworkers.

Employees know they're doing it.

Everyone knows they're.

Doing it but.

Secretly means.

You try to hide it, you don't want anyone to know.

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Some employers remember the employer is the company or the boss.

Some employers are either tacitly.

Or outright banning access to generative AI tools like ChatGPT.

So let's talk about tacitly.

And outright.

First, let's talk.

About the verb to ban, because some employers are banning access to ChatGPT.

When you ban something, in this case the something is access to ChatGPT, it means you don't allow

it.

So the.

Company banned ChatGPT.

You are not allowed to use ChatGPT.

So some employers are either.

Tacitly banning ChatGPT.

If they tacitly do it, it means they don't.

Directly say it.

So what would that?

Mean.

Maybe you're in?

A staff meeting.

And your boss says something.

Like ChatGPT isn't appropriate for the workplace.

But that isn't specifically saying.

You are not allowed to use ChatGPT so.

If you tacitly do something, you suggest it but you.

Don't directly say it.

I don't think ChatGPT is a good idea.

ChatGPT might harm us.

ChatGPT might do more harm than good.

That would be tacitly.

To outright ban ChatGPT, you would directly say it.

So you would say you are not allowed to use ChatGPT in the workplace, so that would be

outright.

So notice the difference there.

And some are Employers are either tacitly or outright.

Banning access to generative AI tools like ChatGPT.

But employees remember.

The workers, but employees who love them are finding.

Ways to discreetly back.

Channel.

In this context, back channel means in a.

Private way.

So they're trying to find ways to.

Use ChatGPT privately, which means secretly.

Now discreetly when you do something.

Discreetly because this is an adverb as well.

When you do something discreetly.

You're trying to do it in a way that doesn't attract a lot of attention, and you're doing.

That usually because.

You don't want other people to know that you're doing it if you.

Attract attention.

Other people will.

Realize what you're doing so you want to do it discreetly.

Both of.

These are just another way of saying that they're doing it secretly.

The article is just using different ways to say the same thing.

Since.

Open AI launched ChatGPT in November 2022.

Companies have scrambled to keep.

Its workplace use.

Under control.

So remember companies that represents the.

Employers, so employers have.

Scrambled companies have scrambled to keep its use is workplace use.

So workplace is being used.

As an adjective, just to say it's use in the workplace, basically because you can have.

Home use when you use chat.

GPT at home of course, but this is the workplace use under control, so.

Let's take a look.

At to scramble when you scramble.

To do something so scramble is a verb.

When you scramble.

To do something, it means you try to quickly do it, and it implies that there's some difficulty.

Doing it.

So you could say I scrambled to finish the presentation.

So you.

Finished the presentation, but you had to do it very quickly and there was some difficulty

involved in it.

So the companies have.

Scrambled.

To keep its workplace.

Use under control.

So they've had to do it quickly just because.

ChatGPT was introduced and everybody started using it.

And so now.

The employers have to quickly.

Try to keep it under control and it's proving to be difficult.

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Many organizations are concerned their.

Data will be leaked.

When information.

Like data is leaked.

It means that it's.

Shared with the public or with others, but.

The person who owns the information doesn't.

Want it to?

Be shared.

So it was shared publicly without permission.

So this is one of the reasons why the companies, the employers, the.

Organizations don't want the.

Employees, the workers to use.

ChatGPT because they're concerned their data, their information, will be leaked, shared

with the public when they don't want it to be.

Yet many workers, employees, workers love.

The technology and have come to depend on it.

Now when you come to do something, it means you eventually do it.

After a period of time.

So this.

Implies that now the workers depend on it, which means that.

They they feel like they have to use it.

They're so comfortable using it.

It helps them so much that it would be.

Difficult for them to.

Do the same work without it.

That's when you depend on something.

So day.

One when ChatGPT was introduced, the workers didn't depend on it because it.

Was only the first day.

But after using it day after day for a period of weeks, months.

Now, a year now.

They've.

Come to depend on it.

So they now depend on it.

But it happened after a period of time.

So you might say.

In the comments, Jennifer.

I've come to love your videos.

So put.

That in the comments.

Now this means you now.

Love my videos.

But it implies that this didn't happen.

Day one, the first time you watch my video.

Sure you enjoyed it.

You liked it.

But after watching more of my videos after a period of time, now you.

Love the videos.

I've come to love your videos, so put that in the comments.

If it's true, Jennifer, I've come.

To love your videos and that would make me very happy.

All right.

So the employees.

The workers have come to depend on it, the IT being ChatGPT.

These.

These are practical tools.

That make life easier.

They can also aid.

With the technical tasks.

Like coding and complete routine.

Tasks.

That lighten employees, cognitive load and schedules.

OK, let's talk about Lighten.

And then the load lighten the load they're.

Using this.

Lighten to lighten.

Because we talk about a workload.

In terms of being heavy or light, that's what I would use.

I wouldn't say I have a small.

Workload I have a.

Big workload.

A native speaker doesn't say that.

A native speaker says I have a.

Light workload, which means?

Not a lot of work.

And then I have a heavy.

Workload.

Which means a lot of work.

And obviously this can change.

Day by day, oh, today I have a really.

Heavy workload and.

Then you can explain all the tasks so.

If you lighten the.

Load it means you go from heavy to light you.

Try to reduce.

The amount of work.

I wrote those definitions here for you.

Now you could say.

I have.

Such a heavy workload 'cause you possess A workload I have.

Such a heavy workload.

I need.

To lighten it.

So you need to reduce the amount of work.

All right.

So that's.

What the employees?

Feel that ChatGPT does for them.

It reduces.

The amount of work.

It lightens their workload because lighten is.

A verb.

Berlin based business consultant Matt So Matt is a business consultant and he's based in

Berlin, which means Berlin is where he operates.

And so this is used as an adjective.

Berlin based business consultant Matt.

All of this describes.

Whoops.

All of this.

Describes who Matt is.

Matt is a consultant.

What type of consultant?

A business consultant.

Where is he based?

He's based in Berlin.

He's a Berlin based business consultant.

What a title Matt has.

Berlin based business consultant.

Matt.

1st at their workplace.

To discover ChatGPT.

Mirror weeks after.

Its release so.

Listen to this mirror.

Mere, mere, mere weeks after its release, mere is an adjective.

And it's.

Simply used to emphasize.

That it it wasn't a long time.

So to emphasize, not a long time.

So you could say I've been learning English for a mere three months.

So you could say I've been learning English for three months, but if you add for a mere

three months, then you're just.

Emphasizing that three months.

Wasn't isn't a long time.

So mere.

Weeks after its release.

Very soon after its release.

Another way is.

Just saying only that would be the equivalent.

Modifier emphasizer only only weeks after its release.

Mere.

Weeks after its release, he says the chat bot transformed their work days overnight.

Now notice it transformed their work days.

This is the something and it.

Happened overnight when something.

Happens overnight.

It's used to say it happened very quickly.

For example, I could say my channel blew.

Up overnight my YouTube channel.

Now in this context, to.

Blow up means to become very popular, so my channel became very popular overnight.

Which means it happened.

Very quickly, one day my channel was at.

100,000 subscribers and then you know the next.

It doesn't have to be one day, it could be the next day, the next week, the next month,

but in a.

Short.

Of time it's like.

Whoa, how did this?

Happen.

Now I have.

3.

Times as many as subscribers and in very short time overnight.

So, he says.

Remember this?

Berlin based business consultant Matt says the chat bot transformed their work days overnight

very quickly.

Day-to-day tasks in his fast-paced environment such as researching scientific topics, gathering

sources and producing thorough presentations to clients.

So these are all the examples of the day-to-day tasks.

So day-to-day tasks, day-to-day just means routine.

Tasks that you do.

Routinely tasks that you do every day, so routine tasks.

Daily tasks, day-to-day tasks and then the examples of them suddenly became a breeze.

So.

Suddenly is.

Actually a very good replacement for overnight, so I'll add this here.

You could say very quickly.

You can say suddenly as well because in this context you would say day-to-day tasks became

a breeze.

Overnight, but if you added overnight it would come after you can say.

Suddenly became a breeze.

But if you wanted to use overnight, you could say became a breeze overnight.

Now, what does became a breeze mean a breeze if you describe something as.

A breeze, it means.

It's very easy, so you could say and hopefully you.

Will.

Learning English with Jennifer is a breeze because you need the.

Verb to be here.

Learning English with.

Jennifer is a breeze, which means it's.

Very easy or.

Jennifer makes English a breeze because most likely you.

Maybe you would, but just learning English is a breeze, which means very easy.

Of course you can say that.

But hopefully you'll say Jennifer makes English a breeze.

Very.

Easy and you could say Jennifer makes English or Jennifer Jennifer makes learning English.

Either one is fine.

So if you think this, put it in the comments because it will help you practice this expression.

And you'll be more likely to remember it if you put it in the comments and.

Use it so.

Put it in the.

Comments, Jennifer makes English a breeze.

Hopefully you.

Think that.

And that's certainly what I try to do.

The only catch?

Matt and his.

Colleague had to keep their use of.

Chat GPTA.

Closely guarded.

Secret.

So here we already know what a secret is.

It's information you don't want anyone to know.

Now a closely guarded secret.

Just means that you don't tell anyone.

Because when you have a secret.

Information you don't want the general public to know.

But you still might.

Tell your close friends, your family, your husband, your wife, even some of your Co workers

for example.

But you just don't share it with everyone.

You share it with specific people.

But if you use closely guarded.

And that's why I'm bringing it to me, 'cause that's what it means, A closely.

Guarded secret is maybe.

One person knows, maybe zero people know, and so the you want the information to be

as close to you as possible.

You don't want the information to be out there in the world.

I wrote that definition for you.

Now let's talk about the.

Only catch because this.

Is the catch that Matt and his colleague have to keep it a secret, A closely guarded secret?

So the.

Catch the catch.

This is used to.

Say that you're.

Turning something.

Positive because remember using ChatGPT.

Made their.

Day-to-day tasks a breeze.

And it did.

This.

Overnight, so that's very positive.

Imagine overnight.

Your work.

Became a lot.

Easier and you had so much more time.

That's a positive.

But if you say.

But there was a catch.

A catch adds something negative to the situation.

So the negative.

Is that they have to do it secretly.

They can't let their employer or their other employees, the fellow employees, know about

it.

So that's the catch.

Let's continue.

Whether the technology is explicitly.

Banned.

So explicitly this is.

The opposite of tacitly.

Do you remember tacitly from the beginning?

Tacitly.

Remember was tacitly this.

Is not directly, so it's suggested, suggested, but not directly said.

Remember, your boss might say something like.

I don't think ChatGPT is a good.

Idea.

But he didn't specifically say you can't use it but in this.

Case if it's explicitly banned, that means directly.

So your boss did say you are not allowed to use ChatGPT so directly.

Clearly it's written down on paper.

Nobody can mistake it.

But if something's tacit, it's easy to mistake because you could say, well, I didn't know

you.

Saying it's not a good idea meant that I'm not allowed to use it.

I thought you were just sharing your opinion, so it's not very.

Clear, but if something is.

Explicitly banned.

It's clear, it's written down.

It's directly said to you.

So whether the technology is explicitly banned highly frowned upon.

This is a good expression to be frowned upon.

When something is frowned upon, it means that.

Someone doesn't like it.

But they're not telling you you can't do it.

For example, my boss frowns upon chat ChatGPT, but my company allows it.

Because in a large organization, your boss doesn't necessarily make the company policies.

Cause your boss probably has two or three bosses as well and.

So the company has.

The overall company has a policy that says you are allowed to use ChatGPT but your.

Boss frowns upon it so your boss doesn't like it.

But you're still allowed to use it.

But then it's an awkward situation for you because you know your boss doesn't like it.

Technically, you are allowed to use it.

So do you still use it?

Hmm, it's an.

Awkward situation to be in sometimes.

When this is used in more social situations, your husband, wife, mother, father, best friend

could frown upon something you.

Do, but they don't have control.

Over your life.

But you respect them and you want to make them happy.

So do you not do the action because they frown upon it, or do you still do it?

It's one of those difficult situations.

OK, so whether it's explicitly banned, frowned upon, or giving some.

Workers a covert leg up.

Covert is the same as secret.

So if something is covert, you don't want the public to know.

So you could say a secret leg.

Up a leg, up is an advantage.

So you could say well, in the I'll just use this example because it's perfect ChatGPT.

Gives me a leg up.

So something gives someone a leg up Means an advantage.

An advantage?

Some employees are searching for ways to keep using generative AI tools discreetly.

We already know what discreetly means.

Again, you could replace it with secretly and it would have almost the same meaning.

According to one study, 75 percent of companies are.

Currently considering or implementing bans.

So in this case, ban is a noun.

It.

Has the same meaning, but as a noun it would be the formal document.

The piece of paper or the policy on a website that says company.

Or employees of this company are not allowed to use ChatGPT, so that would be the ban.

It's talking about it as a something, most likely a document on the company website.

So they're considering or implementing bans on ChatGPT, and other generative AI applications

in the workplace.

Wow, 75%, That's a lot.

But this was only one study and they only talked to a certain number of companies as

well, so I don't know how accurate this is for the entire world.

But what about you?

Feel free to share in the comments if.

Your company has banned Chap GPT.

Do they allow it?

Do they frown upon it?

Feel free to share that in the comments.

I'd be really interested to know.

While these bans may help companies keep sensitive information out of the wrong hands, so by

saying out of the wrong hands the wrong hands in this.

Case will hands belong to people?

So out of the wrong hands means.

That the people who shouldn't have your information don't have it.

So imagine that this is a list of people's credit card numbers, and this is not public

information now.

Right now it could be in the wrong hands because I have it and I'm.

Going to sell it to the highest bidder, of course.

I would never do that, but that's what it means by out of the wrong hands, meaning the

people who shouldn't have it don't have it.

Some say keeping generative AI away from workers can backfire.

If something backfires, it means it has an unintended negative consequence.

That is worse than the positive consequence you wanted.

So what could be an unintended negative outcome or result of banning ChatGPT?

Well, maybe some employees quit because they think that it's so useful to use ChatGPT.

They don't want to work for a company that doesn't allow it, so that could be an unintended

negative outcome your employees.

Quit.

Maybe they keep doing it secretly and it's even.

Less secure because they're bringing documents home and they're doing it on their home computers

that don't have the security protocols that the work computers have.

So they.

Have this ban that's supposed to make information safer, but it backfires because people are

taking information home and is actually creating more of a problem.

So that is just an example of how it could backfire.

So it had an unintended negative outcome.

This is a very common expression as well.

So that's the end of our.

Article Wow.

There was a lot of very useful vocabulary in this article.

I really suggest you watch this a few more times and download that lesson PDF and really

practice this information because you will use these expressions all the time and hear

native speakers using them as well.

So now what I'll do is I'll read the article from start to finish and this time you can

focus on my pronunciation.

The employees secretly using AI at work.

Some employers are either tacitly or outright banning access to generative AI tools like

chat.

GPT but employees who love.

Them are finding ways to discreetly back channel since Open AI launched ChatGPT in November.

2022 companies have scrambled to.

Keep its workplace use under control.

Many organizations are concerned their data will be leaked.

Yet many workers love the technology and have come to depend on it.

These are practical tools that make life easier.

They can also aid with technical tasks like.

Coding and complete routine tasks that.

Lighten employees, Cognitive load and schedules.

Berlin.

Based business consultant Matt and his colleague were among the first at their workplace to

discover ChatGPT Mere weeks after its release.

He says the chat bot transformed their workdays overnight, day-to-day task in his fast-paced

environment, such as researching scientific topics, gathering sources and producing thorough

presentations to clients suddenly became a breeze.

The only catch?

Matt and his colleague had to keep their use of ChatGPT A closely guarded secret.

Whether the technology is explicitly banned highly frowned upon.

Or giving some workers a covert.

Leg up.

Some employees are searching for ways to keep using generative AI tools.

Discreetly.

According to one study, 75 percent of companies are.

Currently considering or implementing bans on ChatGPT and other generative AI applications

in the workplace.

While these bands may help companies keep sensitive information out of the wrong hands,

some.

Say, keeping generative AI away from workers can backfire.

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