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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Ramin Skibba

Bosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they’re drowning in ‘workslop’

A businesswoman searching documents in messy stack.
‘Workslop’ is an unintended consequence of the AI boom. Photograph: Cravetiger/Getty Images

Ken, a copywriter for a large, Miami-based cybersecurity firm, used to enjoy his job. But then the “workslop” started piling up.

Workslop is an unintended consequence of the AI boom. It’s what happens when employees use AI to quickly generate work that seems polished – at least superficially – but is in fact so flawed or inaccurate that it needs to be heavily corrected, cleaned up or even completely redone after it’s passed on to colleagues.

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