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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.

Meatwad Bod

@meatwad17.bsky.social

11 Mar

My son is a graduate student at a well-known institution. His classmates submit nearly all papers using AI with little original thought or writing skill. And staff doesn’t push back. Our “best and brightest” minds are atrophying because of AI. This is a crisis.