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AI-generated “workslop” is destroying productivity?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the early aughts, I was so adept at navigating my town because I delivered pizza. I could draw a map from memory. My directional skills were A+. Once GPS became ubiquitous, I started relying on it, and over about a decade, my navigational skills degraded to the point of embarrassment. I've lived in the same major city now for 5 years and I still need a GPS to go everywhere. This is happening to many people now, wh…

I’m going to defend your dad here. AI slop at work is an absolute waste of time and effort. But your dad is trying to write his story, probably because he wants to leave something behind so he’s not forgotten. It might be cliche-riddled but AI is helping him write his experiences in a form he’s happy with and it’s still his story even if he got help. He’s also probably only writing it for an audience of one - you. So…

Who said I didn't read it? Who said I didn't see it for the earnest effort it is? He doesn't know any better, it's not his fault.

However, I can assure you if his audience is one person, he is that person. He is not writing for me.

Re: AI-generated “workslop” is destroying productivity?

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I'm dealing with this now. It is the bane of my existence.

Paragraphs of content spread out over pages and pages of nothing. Laziness at enterprise scale.

Deep research reports are even worse. They will cite AI-generated content in their work, which makes verifying their sources an O(n^2) task since I, now, have to find the sources _those_ sources cited to find the truth.

This generation of AI is the worst thing to happen to humanity since social media.

Re: AI-generated “workslop” is destroying productivity?

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I won't trust any AI productivity research if the test subjects do not have access to unlimited tokens/GPUs. I see how much productivity gain first hand when you can burn $20 of tokens to save you 30 minutes of human work or the miracle that will happen when you are burning several hundred dollars of tokens a day.

Even the OpenAI or Claude $200 plan doesn't give you enough tokens to make you truly productive. The true ROI measurement should be the token cost over your hourly wage times the time you had saved if you have to do it by hand

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