My coworkers who use AI are getting dumber by the day

[Anonymous]

I have several coworkers who rely heavily on AI. They are spitting out reams of AI generated emails that are mostly empty nonsense that the rest of us have to wade through. They barely know what's going on because AI is doing all the "thinking" for them. There are frequent mistakes. Their work product doesn't match up with the task because they're not using their brain.

What are others doing to deal with this?

[Anonymous]

If it's a performance issue you deal with it as usual. Document and discuss. If these people are not your direct reports then you don't do anything.

This isn't specific to AI.

[Anonymous]

The extra long AI generated emails are a specific AI problem. It has become incredibly easy for people to spit out reams of AI slop that everyone else has to read and try to respond to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The extra long AI generated emails are a specific AI problem. It has become incredibly easy for people to spit out reams of AI slop that everyone else has to read and try to respond to.

No, you don't have to read and respond unless it's from your boss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The extra long AI generated emails are a specific AI problem. It has become incredibly easy for people to spit out reams of AI slop that everyone else has to read and try to respond to.

AI can read and respond for you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The extra long AI generated emails are a specific AI problem. It has become incredibly easy for people to spit out reams of AI slop that everyone else has to read and try to respond to.

+1

And extra long slop memos. Those are the worst.

Yes, I know I can respond with AI. But I have the context AI doesn't have and there's often a couple of specific assumptions that are wrong that I need to correct - AI can't do that, and if it summarizes for me, it may very well determine that the one small error or off assumption isn't a big deal and leave it out entirely.

The details often matter. I'd rather the four poorly written bullets you stuck in AI than having to wade through the useless memo AI made for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The extra long AI generated emails are a specific AI problem. It has become incredibly easy for people to spit out reams of AI slop that everyone else has to read and try to respond to.

+1

And extra long slop memos. Those are the worst.

Yes, I know I can respond with AI. But I have the context AI doesn't have and there's often a couple of specific assumptions that are wrong that I need to correct - AI can't do that, and if it summarizes for me, it may very well determine that the one small error or off assumption isn't a big deal and leave it out entirely.

The details often matter. I'd rather the four poorly written bullets you stuck in AI than having to wade through the useless memo AI made for you.

If this is your team then that is exactly what you tell them. "Send me the bullet points not the AI memo"

This doesn't really need to be crowd sourced.

I cant relate btw, AI in my field makes summaries and emails better. Its a small part of our job but I like when my team uses it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The extra long AI generated emails are a specific AI problem. It has become incredibly easy for people to spit out reams of AI slop that everyone else has to read and try to respond to.

+1

And extra long slop memos. Those are the worst.

Yes, I know I can respond with AI. But I have the context AI doesn't have and there's often a couple of specific assumptions that are wrong that I need to correct - AI can't do that, and if it summarizes for me, it may very well determine that the one small error or off assumption isn't a big deal and leave it out entirely.

The details often matter. I'd rather the four poorly written bullets you stuck in AI than having to wade through the useless memo AI made for you.

If this is your team then that is exactly what you tell them. "Send me the bullet points not the AI memo"

This doesn't really need to be crowd sourced.

I cant relate btw, AI in my field makes summaries and emails better. It's a small part of our job but I like when my team uses it.

PP here. Oh gosh, yes totally if it were people working for me, I'd nip this in the bud in a second. Unfortunately, it's other people on the management team (at my level) who do this. Such a huge waste of everyone's time, but not my place to correct them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The extra long AI generated emails are a specific AI problem. It has become incredibly easy for people to spit out reams of AI slop that everyone else has to read and try to respond to.

+1

And extra long slop memos. Those are the worst.

Yes, I know I can respond with AI. But I have the context AI doesn't have and there's often a couple of specific assumptions that are wrong that I need to correct - AI can't do that, and if it summarizes for me, it may very well determine that the one small error or off assumption isn't a big deal and leave it out entirely.

The details often matter. I'd rather the four poorly written bullets you stuck in AI than having to wade through the useless memo AI made for you.

If this is your team then that is exactly what you tell them. "Send me the bullet points not the AI memo"

This doesn't really need to be crowd sourced.

I cant relate btw, AI in my field makes summaries and emails better. It's a small part of our job but I like when my team uses it.

PP here. Oh gosh, yes totally if it were people working for me, I'd nip this in the bud in a second. Unfortunately, it's other people on the management team (at my level) who do this. Such a huge waste of everyone's time, but not my place to correct them.

I would reply all and make them feel stupid by correcting their obvious AI errors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have several coworkers who rely heavily on AI. They are spitting out reams of AI generated emails that are mostly empty nonsense that the rest of us have to wade through. They barely know what's going on because AI is doing all the "thinking" for them. There are frequent mistakes. Their work product doesn't match up with the task because they're not using their brain.

What are others doing to deal with this?

Mark as SPAM.
Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

AI will create lazy, dumb humans. It's too easy now to rely on AI and not work the brain muscle. Plus, it's obvious to anyone with two brain cells what is AI-generated and what's not. At least try personalizing some of the content. Otherwise, it is very obvious that a robot wrote it.

[Anonymous]

AI is useful when you write the first draft and then ask the LLM to revise and consolidate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AI will create lazy, dumb humans. It's too easy now to rely on AI and not work the brain muscle. Plus, it's obvious to anyone with two brain cells what is AI-generated and what's not. At least try personalizing some of the content. Otherwise, it is very obvious that a robot wrote it.

[Anonymous]

No one is as smart as our king, Donald J. Trump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The extra long AI generated emails are a specific AI problem. It has become incredibly easy for people to spit out reams of AI slop that everyone else has to read and try to respond to.

+1

And extra long slop memos. Those are the worst.

Yes, I know I can respond with AI. But I have the context AI doesn't have and there's often a couple of specific assumptions that are wrong that I need to correct - AI can't do that, and if it summarizes for me, it may very well determine that the one small error or off assumption isn't a big deal and leave it out entirely.

The details often matter. I'd rather the four poorly written bullets you stuck in AI than having to wade through the useless memo AI made for you.

This is OP, and this is my exact problem. I’m having to wade through pages of AI generated crap to find the errors that my coworkers don’t even know exist because they’re not using their brains, or the entire thing is just off because AI doesn’t have all the context. It is the epitome of lazy and it’s making my job harder.