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How to protect yourself from workslop (www.seangoedecke.com)
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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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[–] 12 points 2 months 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.

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