For all its potential, generative AI, on the whole, churns out a lot of junk. Yet employees are becoming ever more reliant on this “workslop” masquerading as high-quality material, says a recent Harvard Business Review blog. They become lazy and less productive, quality control goes off the rails, and integrity and trust begin to erode. Experts urge enterprises to act now, before they lose control entirely. “When slopification happens at scale and in sequence across a business’s processes, those processes themselves — and their outputs — start to deteriorate,” Matthias Holweg, professor at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, and analyst Thomas H. Davenport argue in the post. “Eventually, people start to lose trust in the processes that they rely on to do their jobs.”

Full report : Researchers warn that repeated AI summarization, rewriting, and synthesis can gradually erode the original knowledge, context, and judgment that organizations depend on.