AI Slop Is a Productivity Tax: Execs Say Enterprises Are Drowning
sebpaquet · x · 2026-09-22
A discussion on AI slop as a real productivity tax: the cost of generating information approaches zero while filtering costs don't. Senior execs report meetings have become unnavigable — nobody knows what's in their decks. The sharer predicts stratification: analysts get no AI, associates some, and only people with proven cognitive ability get the powerful models.
More from AGI Musings
- Physicist Quits Tenure-Track Job for AI Safety: 'They Installed Escalators on All the Mountains' — matthew_d_green · 2026-09-22
- AI x-risk debate reignited: distraction conspiracy or inconvenient truth? — AaronBergman18 · 2026-09-22
- Alex Epstein calls (P)doom 'fake threat analysis' that only manufactures fear — TinfoilTricorn · 2026-09-22
- Ruxandra Teslo: AI anxiety is about losing meaning and agency, not just jobs — anshulkundaje · 2026-09-22
- From Erdős to Millennium Problems: AI math progress is compounding fast — haider1 · 2026-09-22
- More inference than training machines means writing will soon beat reading — GregoryDiamos · 2026-09-22