Monday Morning Moan - AI 'workslop' is maddening enough for colleagues, but it could be existential for the organization if we're not careful!
In Disney’s The Lion King, the evil uncle, Scar, bemoans the fact that he’s “surrounded by idiots”.
I know how he feels.
But – if he were here right now – I’d tell him he doesn’t have it so bad. That dealing with snickering hyenas is less depressing than dealing with lobotomized enterprise employees who have been told to use AI at all costs.
And actually done it.
When my colleague Chris Middleton recently wrote about meat proxies – people who simply relay AI-generated information without really understanding or processing it themselves – it rang a pretty loud bell. Because I was actually experiencing that phenomenon in real time in one of my outside engagements.
And it was genuinely bewildering – and more than a little annoying.
Answers to simple technical questions came back filled with reams and reams of clearly AI-generated text – padded out beyond comprehension with...
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