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Forget quiet quitting - AI 'workslop' is the new office morale killer

Richard Drury/DigitalVision via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Workers are using AI to create low-quality "workslop." Bosses have to pick up hours of slack to fix it, harming careers. AI ROI is still unclear for most workplaces. Workers are becoming overly reliant on AI. The result? Lackluster product, now coined "workslop," according to new research from BetterUp Labs and Stanford Social Media Lab. Also: 10 ChatGPT Codex secrets I

Companies Are Being Torn Apart by AI “Workslop,” Stanford Research Finds

AI is supposed to revolutionize workforce productivity, but so far that hasn’t been the case. One study from MIT found that a damning 95 percent of companies that gambled on integrating the tech saw no meaningful growth in revenue. Another study exploring one of its most hyped up applications, AI coding assistants, showed that programmers actually became slower when they depended on the AI tools. Meanwhile, a slew of reports tell an increasingly familiar tale of companies firing their workers t

‘Workslop’: AI-Generated Work Content Is Slowing Everything Down

AI slop isn’t limited to cringey cat videos on Facebook anymore; it has made its way into the workplace. The Harvard Business Review recently coined a term for low-quality, AI-generated work documents—workslop. The respected business publication argues that this growing pile of phoned-in memos and reports is one reason many companies are seeing little return on their AI investments. The report lands as the AI industry keeps booming. The U.N. recently projected the global AI market will rocket