“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.
Just post the slop into Claude and send them the response
That might be a viable defense in one scenario, but as a global approach in the context of everything currently happening, it feels more like a “tools of the enemy” issue. Like combating misinformation with more misinformation, it will backfire sooner or later. And it profits the broligrarchy the whole time you’re doing it.
Profits don’t matter. The broliarchy can just let the US government print money for them and call it a “strategically essential sector”.
If you’re giving them your money, that’s one thing, but the AI slop industry will continue until the US government breaks with tech bros or the US economy collapses trying to keep it going.
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.
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.
But you should add a disclaimer that you will not be held responsible for anything that is said in this communication, because you did not write it or read it
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No, because Claude always agrees with Claude. If you give it Claude input you have to massively fight it to admit it’s wrong.
Ask me how I know.
That’s exactly what the article suggested…