AI promised to revolutionize productivity. Instead, 'workslop' is a giant time suck and the scourge of the 21st century office, Stanford warns

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Research scientists have just issued a warning, of sorts, about a stealthy new threat to productivity across corporate America: Employees are creating and sharing time-wasting and reckless “workslop.”  

The official description of workslop, per researchers from Stanford’s Social Media Lab and BetterUp, an online coaching platform, is “AI-generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.”