How ‘workslop’ is wasting workers’ time and creating AI resentment, research scientists have found

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In other news: Artificial intelligence has been sold to corporate America as a productivity miracle in the making. But while CEOs encourage workers to use AI liberally, they may also be injecting friction into their operations. It turns out corporate America is awash in “workslop.”

That’s the term data scientists from Stanford’s Social Media Lab and BetterUp, an online coaching platform, recently coined to describe “AI-generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.” It’s the workplace equivalent of the cutesy videos and obviously fake photos fill