AI Promises Productivity. It’s Delivering ‘Workslop.’
The more workslop piles up in the office, the more valuable human intelligence will become.
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Most of us have encountered “AI slop,” the deluge of low-quality content produced by generative artificial intelligence tools that has inundated the internet. But is this computer-made hogwash taking over our work as well?
News that Deloitte Australia will partially refund the government for a report sprinkled with apparent AI-generated errors has caused a local furor and spurred international headlines. Barbara Pocock, an Australian senator, said in a radio interview that the A$440,000 ($289,000) taxpayer-funded document misquoted a judge and cited non-existent references. The alleged AI mistakes are “the kinds of things that a first-year university student would be in deep trouble for,” she said.