• FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works
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    20 days ago

    To counteract workslop, leaders should model purposeful AI use, establish clear norms, and encourage a “pilot mindset” that combines high agency with optimism—promoting AI as a collaborative tool, not a shortcut.

    Speaking of workslop and ai generated. This looks like a prime example. WTF is a pilot mindset or high agency, and why combine high agency with optimism? This is so bullshit bingo I am betting ai wrote this article about ai.

  • blargh513@sh.itjust.works
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    21 days ago

    At my last job, I used AI to create SO MUCH workslop.

    I mean, my boss wanted a dozen or so slides on what really was one or two slides at most. Nope, arbitrary set of slides to fill with content that needed to be kinda pretty.

    Fed in the small bit of info I had, made the AI puff it out, add in all the moronic work words that make dumb bosses happy. I even used it to create some largely bullshit charts that kind of backed up what little data was needed.

    He fucking ate it up. Bosses love slop, so fucking give it to them. If I hear how I need a “walking deck” one more time I’m going to–GIVE THEM AI SLOP!

    They want garbage, I have a neverending machine that produces it. I just throw some email and docs at it, got slop decks for days.

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      21 days ago

      They want garbage, I have a neverending machine that produces it. I just throw some email and docs at it, got slop decks for days.

      They care about things that look productive, not actually productive.

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    21 days ago

    When the bubble bursts, I swear, HN will be screeching “THOSE PRIMITIVES COULDN’T HANDLE THE FUTURE! THAT’S WHY WE DON’T HAVE NICE THINGS!”. The attitude of some users there towards AI there is disgustingly religious.

    I’ll still keep using chatbots for my neat conjugation / declension tables.