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All right, y’all: I’m taking a tiny kernel of my generative-AI skepticism back and giving the technology a little credit where it’s due. At long last, it has inspired something for the workforce that actually rules.
That something is not a revenue-generating tool or productivity-enhancing magic wand, sadly, but rather a fun little neologism: “workslop.”
For the uninitiated, this is the buzzword making the rounds this week after the Harvard Business Review published research from Stanford and BetterUp Labs that details an epidemic of nonsensical AI-generated work that “masquerades as productivity” and “lacks real substance.”
Workslop is drivel that looks l
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