How workslop is invading our offices

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has become more controversial than initially expected. Beyond the environmental effects of AI data centers each taking enough water to supply a small town; the concerns over AI hallucinating information that doesn’t exist; as well as the overflow of books, songs, and images poorly created with generative AI, we now have a new danger in the form of “workslop.”

While we were once free of dealing with slop on a professional level, that has now disappeared as companies have begun to introduce specialized chatbots dedicated to their industries as well as AI tools of their own creation. As named by the Harvard Business Review, workslop is defined as “low-quality, AI-generated content in the workplace that looks polished but lacks substance.” This content often wastes time and money as employees are forced to correct inaccurate information or transform generic content into something more in-line with corporate standards.

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