Zwei Drittel der Arbeitnehmer haben die „KI-Schwacherei“ so satt, dass sie „Nostalgie für die Arbeit vor der KI verspüren“
https://www.itpro.com/business/business-strategy/two-thirds-of-workers-are-so-fed-up-with-ai-slop-that-they-feel-nostalgic-for-pre-ai-work
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„We’ll reduce AI in the work place if you agree to return to a 5 day in-office work week.“
>Nearly half (46%) said that dealing with low-quality ‚AI slop‘ makes their job feel less meaningful and more repetitive. More than one-third (37%), for example, admitted it has made them less engaged at work overall.
>More than four-in-ten (42%) now spend more time verifying and fact-checking AI output than they actually save by using it.
A regular issue I’ve encountered at work is colleagues not verifying shit, *like at all*. I’m by no means anti-AI but tried and tested verification/checks just seem to have gone out the window with some folks. I was constantly asking for a second pair of eyes but with AI people seem to take everything at face value. It’s caused multiple headaches.
It’s amazing to me that the people who predicted that AI would make us dumber, lazier, and just generally shittier have almost immediately been proven right.
Babysitting AI sucks the professional satisfaction out of work. If it’s all just AI agents then why do I even need an employer? I’ll just „hire“ my own and start my own business.
“USe iT 0r bE lEftt BeHInd!!”
Yeah, I’m nostalgic too 😭
Large scale „Refuse to Use“ movement needs to happen.
AI is another excuse for my employer to keep us short staffed, while they’re hire on more managers to “implement AI”
I used to feel like a crafter, now i feel like a babysitter
I love when someone calls me at work and asks me to confirm if ChatGPT is telling them the truth
2/3 I expected it to be more
Agreed. I don’t understand why my company allows so much slop and cheers it on … why are we generating text for things no one will actually read only to burn down our planet… humans are truly dumb as hell
I want to scream all the time at work. All people do is “run a quick breakdown with AI before responding, then put your response into AI before you send but make sure you edit and review all the output for accuracy”
In terms of generative images used for things, I actually appreciate when a company/business/event uses terrible photoshop work over AI images now. Even on crappy Amazon products, if I see a kid in front of an inflatable pool or something scaled completely wrong and clearly shopped, I smile now.
Who’d of thought I’d miss the days of terrible photoshopping.
not so fast! even farmers are depressed, as they’re now using argricultural AI drones to SLOP their pigs.
I wish 2/3 of my coworkers missed the times before AI, I haven’t talked to anyone at work that remotely agrees with that.
I feel they’re all happy or at least complacent with the fact they’ve been delegating most if not every task, decision, and problem solving to an entity mostly controlled by billionaires on price, availability, and most importantly, what is the truth.
Every day I’m more and more convinced AI is the single most damaging human invention, Oppenheimer must be really relieved in his grave. Wall-E made me think the worst that could happen is that we’d get fat from letting machines do all the work. Oh god, I wish…
FYI all the people responsible for that are very soft and organic. They are not gods, and their fate lies in our hands.
My boss told me to use AI for my performance review so I did and sent it to her. She used AI to read it and generate a response. So I guess AI is at least confirming that much of my job is meaningless paperwork nobody reads, even important things like performance reviews.
Anyone who works in tech under executives going „Ooh Aah“ when they hear the latest buzzword is sick of AI, and the cloud while we are at it. ServiceNow, AKA ServiceLater has always been terribly slow because it is hosted in the cloud instead of on local servers, and now that its search is „powered“ by AI, we cannot find on-topic knowledge base articles when we are required to attach at least one to every support ticket, or past tickets about the same issue to find a solution to cite. All these high tech whizbangs were supposed to simplify complicated tasks and save time. They don’t. They complicate even the simplest of tasks and waste our time. A lot of us are so burned out we wonder why we ever got into I.T.
the irony is that most of the „AI slop“ people are dealing with at work wasnt created by AI. it was created by managers who told employees to „just use chatgpt for that“ without understanding what „that“ was
now everyone’s inbox is full of emails nobody wrote to people who wont read them, summarizing meetings that didnt need to happen. we automated the busywork and somehow ended up with more of it
My kids now yell at things that are ai slop. Or complain about someone listening to autoreading ai.
I feel nostalgic for pre-AI everything, honestly. It’s exhausting seeing something cool and wondering if it’s AI or not, let alone seeing important photographs and questioning it.
When I worked at a large tech company right before and during the initial AI roll out, something I observed was how basically half the department was using it to write emails that the other half of the department was using it to summarize those emails. All the while, emailing was not at all a pain point for our workflow because we already had tight etiquette and best practices for it that were basically idiot proof.
Besides this, there were several instances of an ambitious team member „solving“ some workflow problem or another with an AI app they whipped up only that building something like that without consulting with other stakeholders would leave it with no implementation strategy and it would easily break besides.
AI has this effect where people who have never done someone else’s job believe that not only can they now do it but they can do it better than anyone and you wind up with neophytes who are trying to reinvent the wheel and undo in some cases years of productivity refinement with „solutions“ that only serve the scope of what they consider a problem. Which maybe that can work for someone’s own tasks but implementing in a wider workflow let alone global alignment that we had across tens of thousands of employees. Just pretty much a nonstarter on its actual usefulness.
Yet, it was still demanded of us just the same that we „Just try it and see what we can do with it“. Weird vibe.
I wish I could strangle my coworkers whenever they use AI to write a two-sentence email. In minecraft.
I am a great individual contributor in my office. I have a skill / talent and people appreciated it for a long while. Then the company I’m at forced me into management. I hated it. I hate managing other people. I hate having to redo their work when my bosses complained „They’re not as good as you.“
…and that’s what AI is. I have to manage it. I don’t want to manage it. I want to MAKE the stuff I’m telling the AI to make.
I would give pretty much everything I own to get rid of AI, one of the most anti-human technology ever conceived
It’s not just that it makes people lazy – it takes dumb but willful people and enables them to further craft their own fake persona and narrative that they’re valuable to a business. Watching people try to make procedures or content for making a business case, who obviously used AI and didn’t even touch it afterwards, is just so pathetic. The fact they fool anyone is bad, but the fact people are fooled by it is worse!
Bring back the days where people had to be smart, and the dumb narcissists didn’t have a skip code for the hard work others are doing.
My department used to be filled with thoughtful, creative people who really felt ownership of their projects and had enthusiastic, collaborative meetings. I know that sounds like a lot of buzzwords but it’s true. At times I felt like I worked at a think tank, it was pretty cool!
Now everyone is just AI’s assistant. Checked out, barely know what they’re working on. AI makes work feel 100x worse, for basically no productivity gain for most people. What a horrible product and total waste of money for the company. The dumbest thing ever to take the world by storm
Headline seems to be cherrypicking quite a bit.
65% reported feeling nostalgic for how work operated before generative AI. However, when asked about actual preference, only 30% explicitly stated they preferred working before AI was introduced.
Additionally, 73% of respondents said using AI enables them to be more efficient, and 67% said they want their organization to increase its use of AI.
It’s so shit.
I was an early AI adopter and it’s amazing how much the different models struggle with intern level consistency. I’ve really pulled back on use.