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How to protect yourself from workslop (www.seangoedecke.com)
submitted 2 hours ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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“Workslop” is when your colleagues or bosses communicate with you by pasting big chunks of AI-generated text. The core problem with workslop is that the effort involved is asymmetrical, like a denial-of-service attack: it takes almost no effort to produce text with AI, but it still costs effort to read.

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[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Fair point, but an few emaisl more or less won't make a difference in the subscriptiin that my company is already paying for. The broligarchs won't profit of that. The misinformation is also minimal, since nobody will ever read any of it.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 5 points 1 hour ago

Yeah but hear me out: using these tools also has an element of deskilling and what early research is calling "cognitive surrender". There's also a hazard of cognitive self-harm in willingly using them in place of thinking. When your boss slop-bombs you, try actually reading it and then talking to them in person. See if they even know what they said, they might get scared straight.