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looorg [soylentnews.org] writes:

They finally came up with a word for it. "Workslop". To much AI usage among (co-)workers is leading to "workslop". Where there is to much AI production that doesn't turn out to be very valuable or productive. It looks fine at a first glance but has produced nothing of value or solved any problems. It just looks fine. All shiny surface, but nothing actual.

workslop is “AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.”

AI promised to revolutionize productivity. Instead, ‘workslop’ is a giant time suck and the scourge of the 21st century office, Stanford warns

A benefits manager said of one AI-sourced document a colleague sent her, “It was annoying and frustrating to waste time trying to sort out something that should have been very straightforward.”

So while companies may be spending hundreds of millions on AI software to create efficiencies and boost productivity, and encouraging employees to use it liberally, they may also be injecting friction into their operations.

The researchers say that “lazy” AI-generated work is not only slowing people down, it’s also leading to employees losing respect for each other. After receiving workslop, staffers said they saw the peers behind it as less creative and less trustworthy.

“The insidious effect of workslop is that it shifts the burden of the work downstream, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work,” they write.

So shit literally flows downwards then?

https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity [hbr.org]
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/27/beware-coworkers-who-produce-ai-generated-workslop/ [techcrunch.com]
https://fortune.com/2025/09/23/ai-workslop-workshop-workplace-communication/ [fortune.com]
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/26/business/ai-workslop-nightcap [cnn.com]

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