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AI promises productivity. It’s delivering ‘workslop’
The tech industry promises that the billions being spent on AI will make us all more productive. The jury is still out on the results.
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“AI slop” is stoking a global debate on the current limitations – and high cost – of the deploying the technology in the workplace.
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Catherine Thorbecke
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Most of us have encountered “AI slop”, the deluge of low-quality content produced by generative artificial intelligence tools that has inundated the internet. But is this computer-made hogwash taking over our work as well?
News that Deloitte Australia will partially refund the government for a report sprinkled with apparent AI-generated errors has caused a local furore and spurred international headlines.
