"Listening to a Boomer read 40 minutes of ChatGPT slop": AI's cognitive load may overwhelm most workers
LadyAshBorg · x · 2026-09-22
A widely shared tweet recounts an employee forced to listen to a much higher-paid colleague read out 40 minutes of inane output from his ChatGPT chat — the poster earns 11.5x less. The reblogger argues that the cognitive load of using AI without producing slop will prove too much for most of the workforce: the bottleneck isn't the tool, it's users' ability to judge output quality.
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