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		johnnyanmac 68 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Evaluating the impact of AI on the labor market: C... Yeah, this is always my skepticism when I say "I get more work done". What about more good work? We had such a pushback last decade about "bullshit jobs" among the tech sphere, but we seemed to have fallen right into it. At least while the money is flowing to enable it.

SchemaLoad 68 days ago [–]

There's a study in to this now https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-...

"We define workslop as AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task."

ChatGPT is basically pushing the real work on to the next person along the line who then has to fix up the generated workslop.

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