Bosses loved AI at work — until they drowned in slop
Bosses are fed up with your grammatically perfect, needlessly verbose memos.
Six months ago, Michelle Volberg, the founder and CEO of tech recruiting company Twill, sent an email to her staff urging them to stop using AI-generated messages that sounded overly formal and lacking context. The emails, she suspected, were being produced by AI tools, which contributed to a decrease in creative thinking and interpersonal relationships within the company.
Volberg now insists on using AI for brainstorming and idea development, but requires employees to maintain their own voice in internal communications. Researchers have coined the term "workslop" to describe low-quality, verbose AI-generated content that has been proliferating among white-collar workers. CEOs, while somewhat complicit due to policy mandates, are now grappling with the deluge of AI-generated content that distracts from real work.
Some companies have implemented anti-slop policies, attempting to strike a balance between supporting AI use and maintaining human-centric work environments. However, these policies may not fully address the underlying issues, such as workers feeling pressured to adopt AI tools without proper guidance.
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