void on Mythryl: “100%”

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.

Karl Bode

@karlbode.com

11 Mar

I spent many years in NYC corporate legal IT and got a very intimate education on illusory productivity. Meetings where you walked out knowing less than you did when you walked in. People paid gobs of money for efficiency improvements that didn't improve efficiency. AI is an accelerant for that.

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