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Forget quiet quitting - AI 'workslop' is the new office morale killer
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AI tools, like ChatGPT, Gemini, and various task-specific agents, are fixing code, creating presentation slides, generating text, and summarizing emails or articles for workers. As workers hand over more tasks to AI assistants and do less of the work themselves, they are turning in poorer results that someone, whether it's a peer or a manager, then has to redo or correct themselves. Not only are workers automating their reponsibilities to their detriment, but their AI use results in their coworker or superior needing to clean up the sloppy mess they've created.
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