{
  "id": 15396582,
  "title": "Companies Are Realizing They’re Spending a Fortune on AI Just So Their Employees Can Generate Error-Riddled Slop, and Suddenly Cutting Back Budgets",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/18/companies-are-realizing-theyre-spending-a-fortune-on-ai-just-so-their",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-18T10:49:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Futurism",
    "slug": "futurism",
    "url": "https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/enterprise-ai-spending-generate-slop-cutting-back"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Recent reports indicate that many corporations are reconsidering their heavy investment in AI technology, as it appears to yield little value for employees. Office workers are reportedly wasting budgets on costly AI tokens, generating vast amounts of low-effort, error-riddled content. Top tech industry players, including Meta and Microsoft, are now scaling back their ambitious plans to replace human employees with AI agents, as they grapple with the issue of \"workslop\" – low-quality, AI-generated work. Executives are increasingly concerned about the negative consequences of this AI adoption, with Johnny Taylor Jr., CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, stating that companies are \"building it at the same time\" as they're using it, which poses a significant problem. A survey by Ernst and Young found that 36 percent of senior AI executives at firms with annual revenues exceeding $1 billion have already experienced catastrophic \"AI incidents\" that caused financial damage, operational disruptions, data loss, or brand damage. Companies are starting to question the rapid pace of AI implementation, and some are even regretting their decision to dive headfirst into the technology.",
  "summary": "\"We're driving the truck and building it at the same time, and that's a problem.\" The post Companies Are Realizing They’re Spending a Fortune on AI Just So Their Employees Can Generate Error-Riddled Slop, and Suddenly Cutting Back Budgets appeared first on Futurism .",
  "key_points": [
    "Corporations reconsider heavy AI investment due to low employee value",
    "Meta and Microsoft scaling back AI plans amid \"workslop\" issue",
    "36% of senior AI executives experienced catastrophic AI incidents"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}