Karl Bode on Mythryl: “lol, yup”

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.

Timothy Babulski, PhD

@tokenintellect.bsky.social

11 Mar

It’s the AI corollary of Dunning-Kruger: if you are satisfied by AI output and believe it’s making you efficient, you lack the competence to determine what is and isn’t slop in the first place, but have enough confidence to think you’re better than all the people having to clean up after you.

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