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We’ve been hearing a lot lately about bosses who have embraced AI so much that they’ve become loose cannons — outsourcing decisions to chatbots, making erratic strategy pivots based on their feedback, and even asking them who to fire.
At the same time, other company leaders are turning against the tech. Writing for Inc, professional AI consultant and tech commentator Joe Procopio wrote that some corporate executives are getting sick of AI slop. He explains that he’s observed as a growing number of weary companies impose bans on AI use, for reasons ranging from digital security to cost-savings.
Others are just sick of all the mind-numbing workslop. As Procopio writes, one anonymous CEO got so fed up with the amount of AI-generated garbage flooding their inbox that they threatened to “fire the next person” who blasted them with an unedited email straight from ChatGPT.
Separately, Procopio observed that he caught wind of another tech CEO implementing a complete ban on AI across his entire company, the first case he’d ever heard of.
Those disclosures come as companies using AI face growing costs from the tech’s providers, which are themselves running up against critical data center, energy and labor bottlenecks. Sure, it’d be one thing if AI was worth the cost. But broadly speaking, that’s not what companies are finding — leading to a lose-lose situation for execs: not only is AI losing you money, but it’s stuffing your inbox full of low-effort slop as well.
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