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whether it’s just AI slop being AI slop, or workers “quiet quitting” and making slop, the fault is still on the employers for creating that environment. bosses need to admit to themselves that this is the best that AI can offer. cut your losses and respect your workers.

This isn't the workers fault, they're having crap software shoved down their throats and forced into their workflows with zero thought on how it'd actually improve anything. What other end result are you expecting?

Sure. It’s the workers. It’s the drones. AI is just BRILLIANT. 🙄 Get a new propaganda point.

I've been with my employer for 15 years. They're just beginning to force us to use AI. Will I lose my job if I angrily tell management to get in the sea?

interesting that you attribute the creation of workslop to employees when employees have always been capable of producing low-effort work. It's AI that produces workslop. AI is the new element here: AI is responsible.

Bluesky hates trans people

'Low productivity gains from AI may stem from the AI not being able to produce anything good.'

productivity losses

Blaming workers for using the shitty slop machines that their bosses are pushing them to use is certainly a take.

Probably what happens when you require everyone to use AI in their work.

so, in what way did the "AI" help then

It's called "doing what my boss asked me to do"

How much human effort went into this “research”

Tech industry literally doing the "no it is the children who are wrong" meme with their dumb bots

I can do shit work all by myself. Amateurs.

what does "high effort" ai produced work look like

Wait... so bosses are mad their employees followed directions and used the tools the bosses demanded they use against all logic and advice? Lol. Lmao

Low productivity gains from AI are because AI is crap and its worthless. Also if you tell your employees to use AI instead of making an effort to create something good, you get shitty work.

Well because you only get the productivity enhancing output of LLMs if you have them write code for you, which means your workers have to at least be able to run python on their laptops. Otherwise you're asking the LLM to do things that it cannot do itself. It can write you useful code though.

Well, as long as it's the employees fault and not the technologies! That would be awwwkkkkkkwaaarrrd

I know the cunt I work with does it

That's what it does though.

hell yes bluesky post, that's the content i'm here for

"oh no, we demanded they all start using the Slop Producing Machine or get fired and now they're all producing slop!" come the fuck on, really?

Research: low food service profitability gains from dull rusty knives may stem from chefs being forced to use dull rusty knives to produce "foodslop", or low-effort, passable "food" that looks like shit (Harvard Business Review)

Isn't it great that government bodies want to use AI for basically everything?

yes, yes it’s the employee doing the slop not the slop machine we built

Checks out

that's the only thing AI does you morons

"i told all my employees to use sausage makers and now all they make is fucking sausage"

thats is literally what AI does, what it is made to produce

It's been a while since I read the Malicious compliance reddit; might search for "AI" in it.

Funny how the same worker used to produce quality work before AI...

shut da fuck up

And also “AI” doesn’t work bsky.app/profile/agpa...

This right here.

they want any & every excu2 blame workers

There is business value in replacing human support (which may on occasion be actually helpful) with AI that just keeps customers busy until they give up.

right right. we should have built the economy on Akinator

This isn't the employees' fault.

"We want to be an AI powered firm!" 😬

Lmao when the boss says "you need to use this tool to double your output" what choice do you think the worker has other than, comply, quit, or get fired?

Choosing? I assure you, the workers do not have a choice in the matter. This is a management fault clear cut

Exactly!

Can we just cut to the chase? We all know AI was Overpromised and like Self Driving Cars will be Underdelivered. You've suck up all the money already and built the server farms. Tell your investors all the servers will be used to mine crypto now & let us all get on with our lives.

Because low quality slop is all that "AI" is capable of? I believe it.

that list of authors is a murderer's row of "people i would not trust to pet sit"

TFSDR (Too Fucking Stupid Didn’t Read)

Oh hilarious. Yes. It’s the workers who are using AI on their own. Jesus Christ, you fucking losers.

Have you considered that everything AI produces is slop. Its just slop. If you dont want slop then stop using the slop machine. Reward human beings for engaging with and solving problems by paying them well rather than trying to encourage them to use the tools you plan to have replace them.

"So many of the tasks req to work well w/AI—giving prompts, offering feedback, describing context—are collaborative." AMEN I add: Operator must B sharp for most AI benefit. If not following close, things go awry, 1st subtly, in what's reptd or profesd if not iteratively redirected, called out etc

As I spend my entire working week producing low effort passable work that creates more work for others I am finally thinking my job is at risk

Or, and hear me out here, that’s AI working as intended

Producing “low effort, passable work that creates more work for other” is a feature, not a bug, of AI. Shut the hell up, Techmeme.

Degrade working conditions, degrade the work produced,

"research"

LOL stfu bitch

Well, what did they expect? *takes a hander at all of the overblown AI hype and bullshit* Ah. Welp. That's on them for believing that obvious bullshit.

Just for japes, for funnies, for the sake of it.. let's play along and say that this is the problem, (rather than AI-tools being crappy.) If the problem is that employees are using AI-tools to produce trash, what's the remedy? hmm? Surely the remedy is to ban use of these tools in the workplace.

#SISO . . . slop in slop out

Hahahhaha.

Yeah, because LLMs were never going to be able to do what the assholes promised. We’ve been saying this for quite some time now.

Yep, they’ll try to keep the plates spinning as long as possible. OpenAI running low on cash to buy Nvidia chips? Why, Nvidia will just give them a hundred billion dollars! Problem solved! finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-...

The question is were the people producing workslop producing anything of value before I suspect their work product wasn't much better before they outsourced it to the BS engine.

I've yet to see a credible report of productivity gains, either. The average is ~20% less productivity when relying on AI tooling in software production. Maybe the illusion of productivity is more compelling in less technical fields.

Counterargument: AI is a shit product, and it generates shit output.