Karl Bode on Mythryl: “also, quite generally, this country (especially corporate america)…”

there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive

techdirt.comStanford Study: ‘AI’ Generated ‘Workslop’ Actually Making Productivity WorseAutomation undeniably has some useful applications. But the folks hyping modern “AI” have not only dramatically overstated its capabilities, many of them generally view these tools as a…

Dave Jamieson@jamieson.bsky.social

AI Isn’t Lightening Workloads. It’s Making Them More Intense.: "It’s not that AI doesn’t create efficiency. It’s that the capacity it frees up immediately gets repurposed into doing other work, and that’s where the creep is likely to happen." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-i...

wsj.comAI Isn’t Lightening Workloads. It’s Making Them More Intense.The technology is increasing the speed, density and complexity of work rather than reducing it, a new analysis of 164,000 people’s work activity shows.

John

@jdobry5122.bsky.social

11 Mar

“Efficient” has signaled intent more than held meaning for so long now, I view it like RWers trying to define woke or crt.

John@jdobry5122.bsky.social

This is great. "Efficient" has become my alert word that the speaker may not know what they are talking about. But "prior" and "update" are better

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