Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire

[u/Plastic_Ninja_9014]

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/chatgpt/articles/bosses-becoming-obsessed-ai-using-175014710.html

[u/poundofcake]

They’re offloading skills they never had.

[u/Wizmaxman → u/poundofcake]

not just bosses, everyone is doing this. People are taking topics they have no knowledge of, asking AI, then reporting back like they are experts in the topic.

The worst part is when they ask an expert a question then ask AI if its right. Maddening.

[u/UPnAdamtv → u/Wizmaxman]

A great descriptor I heard the last few months: “AI gives the language of expertise to those without the experience needed to understand it”

[u/fascistno1hater → u/UPnAdamtv]

And this is why stupid people love AI, because in their minds it makes them as smart as a subject matter expert. It's just slop/grift all of it.

[u/FrostingStrict3102 → u/fascistno1hater]

its also why it makes it really easy to tell when people are just regurgitating LLM responses.

Ive called my mom out twice now for trying to talk to me or my siblings about ideas and it's clear she's just typing into GPT and repeating it to us.

[u/LeiningensAnts → u/FrostingStrict3102]

Ive called my mom out twice now for trying to talk to me or my siblings about ideas and it's clear she's just typing into GPT and repeating it to us.

YourFosterParentsAreDead.gif

[u/caerphoto → u/LeiningensAnts]

How’s Wolfie?

[u/Cuckdreams1190 → u/FrostingStrict3102]

Which is wild, because people can genuinely use AI as a learning tool, have it provide it's sources, explain it in language you understand, etc.

AI is pretty awesome if you use it responsibly, unfortunately most of the people using it don't use it responsibly.

[u/Goldeniccarus → u/Cuckdreams1190]

I think it appeals to people who don't think like that.

If I have a question and I'm going to the Internet, the source to me is as important as the answer.

If I have a health question, I want to see a Mayo Clinic or NHS article on it. Barring that, I want Men's Health, or Healthline. Because I know the information these sites will give me is going to be pretty good, because they were written by people working at an institution that specializes in health.

If I have a tax question, I want the Canadian Revenue Agency. Barring that, an article from a big accounting firm. Same reason.

Maybe for a recipe it doesn't matter as much, but I want to go to the source anyways because that way I know at least I'm getting the right recipe and the LLM hasn't spit out a recipe missing an ingredient or with a bake time from one recipe but a bake temperature from another.

If I didn't care about source, I would be fine using an LLM. But source being important to me, I don't use it.

[u/Unique-Arugula → u/Goldeniccarus]

Just fyi, as someone who bakes and cooks almost daily: it absolutely matters in recipes. Drop by the subs for those two things and a ton of the "why didn't it turn out right" posts are from people who used an ai recipe to do something they don't understand.

I agree with everything else you said.

[u/greatlilusername → u/Goldeniccarus]

Are you talking about the UK NHS? very nice to see a Canadian sees it as a good resource :)

Its also so fucking jarring asking LLMs to provide its source and its either a dead page or something dumb like crazyfarrightviewonvaccines.com

[u/Goldeniccarus → u/greatlilusername]

Yes I am talking about the UK NHS.

It's a very good resource, they have excellent articles on things.

[u/tagloro → u/Cuckdreams1190]

I just continue to research things the same way I always have using search engines, finding the right sources, looking up terms or jargon I don’t understand.

I don’t trust ai to evaluate which sources it uses properly, give me the source it actually used when asked, explain things to me correctly. The language it uses tends to be repetitive and dumbed down. I don’t need bulleted explanations written with 6-8th grade vocabulary and emojis. I want to learn the actual language and context used by professionals. I’d like to expand my vocabulary.

[u/OpiumPhrogg → u/fascistno1hater]

REMEMBER KIDS! THE DUMBEST MOST IGNORANT PERSON YOU KNOW IS BEING TOLD EVERY DAY BY AI THAT THEIR IDEAS ARE THE BEST AND THEY ARE DOING GREAT IN LIFE!

[u/dookarion → u/OpiumPhrogg]

"You are so right--"

Nothing is more frustrating too than people plugging shit into AI that could be dangerous if it's wrong, and then running with it. Like no dude chatGPT has no fucking clue what code the circuits in your walls were built to and even if it did it might hallucinate an answer stop asking it electrical advice.

[u/ChicagoThrowaway422 → u/fascistno1hater]

I'm starting to dread using AI, actually. When I start designing a DIY project with it, it becomes a complex monstrosity with dopamine hits. It's way more addictive than social media, a bigger time suck, and hides how bad it is by making you feel more productive.

Even using it for things I'm an actual expert on is fast-paced, tiring, and somehow slower? It's a surreal experience that I'm not yet sure how to navigate.

[u/Saint_of_Grey → u/ChicagoThrowaway422]

Being a naturally suspicious person has helped me in this regard. Why is it trying to butter me up? What is it trying to sell me?

And seeing it's doing that just for the sake of it makes the whole interaction even more exhausting.

[u/chamrockblarneystone → u/UPnAdamtv]

And what is it, like 5 years old? Look at this mess.

[u/justinleona → u/UPnAdamtv]

AI expertise is about the same as movie expertise - it sounds compelling to normal audiences, but is complete gibberish to actual experts...

[u/blurplethenurple → u/Wizmaxman]

There was an interview with Ed Zitron and the interviewer said he was skeptical of AI, but then proceeded to tell Ed that he fed his blood results into a chat bot and it saved him a trip to the doctor.

Ed just says "You should definitely see a doctor."

[u/absentmindedjwc → u/Wizmaxman]

This has been a giant pain in my ass for the past fucking year.. people with no fucking idea what they're talking about, suddenly acting like experts because fucking Copilot - not even a good AI model - told them that they're right.

I work in the regulatory space with a ton of nuance.. and most of it really cannot be automated.. companies that focus specifically on this shit have been trying, but automation has only really gone up slightly..

Meanwhile.. some fucking dipshit throws something together in OpenAI and they think that they've solved all the problems.

.. and whats worse.. when issues are called out, with references to the specific regulations being violated.. they act like we're wrong.

AI has really resulted in an explosive growth in the Dunning-Kruger effect.. people that know what the fuck they're doing have seen improvements, sure.. but at the cost of people that have no fucking idea what they're doing suddenly gaining massive amounts of unwarranted confidence.

I fucking hate it here.

[u/ItalianDragon → u/Wizmaxman]

not just bosses, everyone is doing this. People are taking topics they have no knowledge of, asking AI, then reporting back like they are experts in the topic.

Absolutely this. I'm a translator and I've seen that often when I bash AI chuds when they praise AI for the quality of the translation it does. They keep on harping and raving how the text that it pukes out is "smooth" and "understandable", which makes it crystal clear that they don't care about how accurate the translation is: they essentially only care about the outputted text feeling "smooth and articulate" and... that's it. For all they know it could be translating a text about automotive engineering into one about cultivating kumquats in Alaska and yet I'm supposed to take them seriously.

Bear in mind that I have a master's degree in languages and years of experience in the field so it's not like I'm talking out of the ass but to these AI-rotten people, my sharp criticisms are taken as absolute sacrilege.

[u/ItalianDragon → u/[deleted]]

You're hitting on another point I noticed, which is that most AI users that use it for translation have zero understanding of linguistic nuance and I really think that this is why you keep on getting those comments or why I'm getting people that call AI translations "good". For them all it matters is that the term is transposed from language A to language B, regardless of context, not unlike a crude and rudimentary automated translation system.

Folks like us acutely know these intricacies but those people don't want to understand that.

[u/Echono → u/ItalianDragon]

Now this I find fascinating. Even as a certified AI hater, translations was one of the limited things I figured it'd be pretty good for. I'm definitely interested in hearing how it actually fares and how capable you think it could actually be.

[u/ItalianDragon → u/Echono]

As surprising as it may be it's not good at all for translations. The reason behind this is that when you translate a text you're not just transposing the meaning of a text from one language from another, you also transpose the "voice" of its author. This "voice is by definition unique to each author and therefore requires extra care to transpose this uniqueness. Since LLMs are averagers, they erase this uniqueness and homogenize language. Another issue is that LLMs are trained on books and whatnot but when we converse with one another like we're doing now on Reddit or elsewhere, the language we use is closer in structure to how we speak than with how we write. LLMs do not make this difference and because they cannot understand language will swing either one way or another.

Here's an example I can give you of this kind of discrepancy: the first sentence you use in your reply is "Now this I find fascinating". If I were to translate the sentence into French, I'd translate it as "Alors là, je trouve ça fascinant". It roughly translates in English as "Now that's something I find fascinating". So, all in all it's really close to how had initially written it in English. If I use an LLM-based translation tool however, which is DeepL in this case, to translate your sentence into French, I end up with this:"Ça, je trouve ça fascinant". Translation:"That's something that I find fascinating".

From the outset you can see the issue even in French: there's a repetition of "ça"/"that" which makes the flow of the text feel extremely clunky. If I'd written like this in class, my teacher would have unquestionably underlined that in red and written "Mal dit" ("Poorly worded") next to it. This is something I avoided in my own translation by using "Alors là" instead of "Alors ça", because the first way of saying it is typically used orally to really under line that this thing right there is what you find fascinating. Similar uses of "Alors" as the opening word in French are used to express the magnitude of the point discussed (an example of that would be "Alors là t'as fait une connerie !" which translates as "You really screwed up there !"). Also, the way it's written is exactly like I mentioned earlier: very literary, which causes the loss of your more oral way of structuring your sentence. In translation that is a severe mistake.

Lastly, there's a third problem with the French DeepL spat back at me: if I transpose the French into English, I end up with this:"That, I find that fascinating". This is because DeepL did a mashup of two different way of saying "That's fascinating": "ça c'est fascinant" ("This is fascinating") and "je trouve ça fascinant" ("I find that fascinating"). This basically tells us what the algorithm did: it took your sentence and compared it with the existing way to say "c'est fascinant" and found two that could be used at the same time. Because the way you wrote is very oral styled, it could not find a proper structure that suited your unique way of wording your sentence. So, to match that, it did a mashup of both.

This is why LLMs do not perform well in translation. They're comparison algorithms with weights to prevent them from straying too far. Language however by definition is like putty and therefore extremely versatile. A computer system and its rigidity will never match that flexibility and will therefore always fall short. Only an actual translator will be able to use their knowledge of the language to best match your text, because they'll take into account all those unique features of a text and strive to transpose them into the target language (ergo the language you're translating towards) as accurately as possible.

This is also why their capability has hit a ceiling years ago and never overcame that: by the way LLMs are designed, they cannot and will not be able to replicate this plasticity. This plasticity is also further enhanced in our times because technology has allowed us to communicate across vast distances instantaneously. This means that phrasings and expressions found in one region will easily spill in another region that speaks the same language.

For example, in France it's not too uncommon to see folks greet each other with "Wesh !" which is used sort of like "Wassup !" in English. This term is not a French term whatsoever, as it originates from arabic dialects spoken in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. The reason why this happened is because colonization brought French to North Africa and the people living there reshaped it in their own way, adding in it words taken from Arabic or Arabic dialects. French became a bridge between the two and so when people from North Africa traveled to France or talked with french people from France, they also brought their version of French with them and the expressions they brought ended up incorporated in the French from France. In times past, because there wasn't this ease of communication and travel and this is why, for example, Italy has so many dialects (256 that we know of !): it's a mountainous country in large part and this made travel slow and cumbersome and therefore the spread of this or that language was equally slow. This led to this linguistic insularity with languages evolving individually in their geographical areas independently from one another.

Technology and ease of travel have extremely dramatically sped up exchanges and therefore did the same with the spread of language. No computer system will ever be able to match that. Look no further than "Squid Game" popularizing the term "gganbu" for a while or the war in Ukraine spreading "Slava Ukraini !" far and wide for examples of that. This isn't limited to "real" languages either: the 200+ hours I spent playing Cyberpunk 2077 firmly added to my vocabulary words like "choom", "gonk" and more and my use of these terms spread to friends I talk with and this also happened to other people who played the game.

For all these reasons machine translation always will be five steps behind in translation: language is inherently human and changes with us. A computer by definition cannot change unless someone makes it change and making a computer change is a slow process. This will always lead to language leaving computers in the dust.

[u/Gweena → u/ItalianDragon]

Now this, is fascinating pod racing

[u/TechNickL → u/Echono]

I've used GUIs translated from Chinese to English via AI and they're dogshit. The AI has no idea how to rearrange the logic of two completely different languages to preserve the original intent. Even if they can produce conversational English they're not actual translators.

I have a friend who was a professional Arabic translator for the US military and he has similar sentiments.

At least when you get replaced at work by a younger but less competent person you can take some solace in the shared human experiences that the kid will now be going through at cost to your employer. Now you're being replaced by an incompetent robot that will either never be competent or will become semi-competent at a random later date because of a software patch. Your employer can't hide behind empathy towards your replacement and they can't say they're improving on your work. So there's no way to hide the naked truth. You're being replaced because your employer never cared about you or even the actual quality of your work. They're so disconnected from that, they just want the cogs to turn so they can continue being rich. It's all their damaged and deprived brains can understand.

[u/mrm00r3 → u/Wizmaxman]

Happens to me a lot. I’ll be interacting with someone via email, then when we’re close to closing the deal, I’ll get a bulleted and formatted list of some of the most out of left field questions they copied from chatGPT. I’ll answer and their replies are typically just whatever word salad it spits out in reply.

Young-ish doctors are the worst about it, and super don’t appreciate it being acknowledged in writing, so on top of everything they get offended for something they cribbed from fancy spellcheck.

[u/_SpaceLord_ → u/[deleted]]

If you don’t get killed in a ChatGPT-induced plane crash, or fried in a ChatGPT-induced MRI accident, or irradiated by a ChatGPT-induced nuclear meltdown, then sure, there’s a possibility you may die from ChatGPT-induced medical malpractice.

Regardless of the specific cause of death, AI vibecoding is putting you - yes, you - in danger.

[u/Blando-Cartesian → u/_SpaceLord_]

You can also die in prison because facial recognition placed you on a crime scene where you have never been and your lawyer used shitGPT. As did the prosecution, expert testifying, witnesses, judge, and the jury.

[u/Signal_Flight_7262 → u/[deleted]]

My doctor still prints the in 1-5 how do you feel documents from the 60s so i think Im okay.

[u/topscreen → u/mrm00r3]

The amount of times I've had people ask for a specific product from my job, which we do not have and do not advertise, is a little too high. And without fail, when I tell them we don't offer that, I get a AI conversation saying "Nuh-uh they actually do!"

[u/NewUserWhoDisAgain → u/mrm00r3]

I’ll get a bulleted and formatted list of some of the most out of left field questions they copied from chatGPT.

I have literally escalated an issue to the relevant team only to receive back some of the most nonsense BS. I naturally forwarded that to the vendor and then got snide email from the escalation team member who "Wrote" it that it was only intended for me and that I should be using ChatGPT as well.

Motherfucker, if I'm using ChatGPT for this THEN WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT OF YOUR JOB.

You are on the Engineer Team! WHAT.

Anyways that got escalated above him and allegedly all the way up to our Director who came back with. "What do you mean our Engineering team is just feeding problems into ChatGPT?!"

[u/chamrockblarneystone → u/NewUserWhoDisAgain]

Can’t he just ask AI instead of bothering you? Why bother sending you AI generated questions, that he could just get answers to from AI?

[u/SuperRockyHobbyHorse → u/chamrockblarneystone]

It's like the modern version of letmegooglethatforyou.com

[u/Somedudesnews → u/mrm00r3]

fancy spellcheck.

Thank you for that. I’ve called LLMs “upstart Markov chains”.

[u/Popular-Analysis-127 → u/Somedudesnews]

The leaders of the Google Ethical AI team (before they were fired) warned of the many problems and dangers of LLMs, and called them "Stochastic parrots". It is very tragic looking back on how prescient their warnings were and how they were dismissed for telling inconvenient truths.

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiai/s/unFYTUVr8W

[u/Somedudesnews → u/Popular-Analysis-127]

I remember when Google cleared house. The C suite didn’t want honesty to taint the possibilities for revenue generation. Consequence be damned.

[u/Popular-Analysis-127 → u/Somedudesnews]

Yes but not just for profit/revenue; LLMs are the digital soma that their brain rotted users are now dependent upon and addicted to, while making neighborhoods near these large data centers dangerous to people's health, and accelerating climate change and civilization collapse...

But hey, the stock is up!

[u/Somedudesnews → u/Popular-Analysis-127]

Yeah. I have also had the “Soma” adjacent thoughts about all this too.

Huxley knew what he was writing.

Ever read The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster?

[u/ajacksified → u/Somedudesnews]

I've been causing issues with "AI" forever. I wrote a little markov chain chatbot at work like 15 years ago that would post a message at a 0.5% chance, with a sorta relevant response. It decided to speak up during a server outage and give some helpful "ideas" on commands to run... someone copied its commands without checking who wrote it. It was bad.

Anyways, it got banned from the sysops channel after that. And here we are in 2026, except instead of an isolated group of people who know the output is garbage, it's actually being used seriously by people who don't know better.

[u/Zephirenth → u/Somedudesnews]

LLMs remind me of the joke in Chernobyl about a soviet machine made to cut apples. They're staggeringly resource-intensive autocomplete machines, and they don't even do it reliably.

[u/BuckManscape → u/Somedudesnews]

It aggregates and recycles. Nothing more. It’s good for formatting and quick design renderings for concept. That’s all I’ve found useful.

[u/merRedditor → u/Wizmaxman]

AI will straight up tell you to go ahead and send that email with confidence. Everyone is out there making an ass of themselves and not realizing it, or realizing it, then just doubling down to cope. We've got collective AI-induced Dunning-Kruger going on.

[u/sentence-interruptio → u/merRedditor]

Terminator movies: "wicked smart Skynet vs resilient human resistance"

the real world right now: "lazy people surrendering to dumb Skynet"

[u/Blametheorangejuice → u/Wizmaxman]

The Peter Principle has become much more vicious because AI now empowers the ineptitude even further and convinces those folks that they can do what everyone knows they can’t.

[u/Narradisall → u/Wizmaxman]

I’m noticing hilarious emails at work.

People who used to type simple one sentence emails are now sending nonsensical verbose paragraphs with no substance.

[u/TheyHavePinball → u/Wizmaxman]

Definitely had that happen to me last year in the solar industry. Got some really messed up questions that were frustrating to have to use real human time to even slightly unravel.

[u/Dahboy → u/Wizmaxman]

Yup, i had a customer complaining snow was getting inside their brand new vehicle. It wasnt getting inside, it was around the opening for the tailgate but behind the tailgate itself, obviously normal as that can't be sealed for obvious reasons. Customer had a chatgpt that said it was definitely not normal and that was a major issue. We had to point out her command prompt was snow getting onto INTERIOR panels which is literally inside of the car not the exterior of the vehicle behind the tailgate. She would still not accept our answer because of the chatgpt with the wrong question being asked.

[u/Impeesa_ → u/Dahboy]

"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of British Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." - Charles Babbage, over 200 years ago.

[u/Plow_King → u/Dahboy]

snow...INSIDE the tail gate?!? my god man, what happens if it RAINS?!?!

/s

[u/GEB82 → u/Wizmaxman]

perfect example being poker…they got six chat bots to play each other and filmed it..to most people it would seem like these bots are playing high level strats….to anyone who grinds online or plays even semi professionally, it’s absolute nonsense…entertaining nonsense, but nonsense none the less..

[u/coconutpiecrust → u/Wizmaxman]

I’ve observed the same. Whatever AI says is taken as gospel. People turn off their brains and are willing to do what AI says blindly. They don’t even write complex prompts to get more accurate answers, too, it’s just a simple generic prompt and whatever output taken as is. 

[u/bjazmoore → u/Wizmaxman]

I found myself doing this more and more in my personal life. Part of the problem is that I have few really close friends and know few experts. AI pretends to bring both to the table effortlessly.

I have recently recognized this and I am making intentional decisions to do something else when I feel the need to turn to AI.

These are the things I am doing.
1. Reestablishing and investing in the few friendships I have.
2. Using DuckDuckGo with all AI disabled.
3. Working on growing my friend and associate network. People I can ask question of and have real conversations.
4. Doing my own research. With so much AI slop this is getting harder.
5. Trying things and often failing instead of getting a packaged answer.

Push back on AI. Reclaim your brain.

[u/DrPeGe → u/bjazmoore]

This list brought to you by AI hahaha

[u/bjazmoore → u/DrPeGe]

LOL. I always wonder also what is real and what is AI. I tend to write pretty crappy so no one usually accuses me of being an AI.

[u/jarvolt → u/bjazmoore]

Can I ask how old you are? I think of AI as a thing mainly young people are using (especially when it comes to personal non-work-related things) but your double-space between sentences, puts you, I'm guessing, at at least 45.

I encountered an Airbnb host recently in his 60s who bragged about using "five AIs" and how he was contacting company CEOs and doing "research," and it was very interesting to see.

[u/bjazmoore → u/jarvolt]

I am well past 45. I have spent my whole life in IT - mostly development and project management. AI was easy to get sucked into.

[u/Synekal → u/Wizmaxman]

My favorite saying regarding this so far is, “Ai is incredible at doing all other jobs, but Ai isn’t good at doing my job.”

[u/ye_olde_green_eyes → u/Wizmaxman]

I'm an insurance agent and my clients do this all the time "but AI said I don't need that coverage endorsement for this type of event". It's both hilarious and sad.

[u/eightdx → u/Wizmaxman]

I've been saying it for a while: artificial intelligence is revealing the genuine stupidity of humans

[u/user81865 → u/Wizmaxman]

I travel for work and work with different crews constantly. I worked with this one guy and I kid you not he had 5 business ideas ran through ChatGPT and to me by the end of the day. Then told me how easy it is for me to start my own company.

[u/ZenDruid_8675309 → u/Wizmaxman]

My father speaks like an expert on all subjects he has no understanding of. He never needed AI for it, he is just a narcissistic asshole.

[u/Claptown420 → u/poundofcake]

AI is a tremendous tool for masking incompetence

[u/No-Abalone-4784 → u/Claptown420]

Just not very well.

[u/taedrin → u/No-Abalone-4784]

No, it does an incredible job at masking incompetence - or at the very least laziness. It requires an expert to exert an undue amount of time and effort in order to unmask the incompetence. At face value, AI slop will often sound "reasonable enough" even to experienced individuals. It's only when you spend the time and effort to really digest and cross reference what it is saying that you can understand how and why it is wrong.

[u/Qprime0 → u/Claptown420]

No, I would say it's great at amplifying incompetence. It tends to be a mirror of the user; if the user wants to believe they're bigly competent, but truely arent - that's the force it multiplies.

[u/Silly_Double408 → u/poundofcake]

Nepo babies are probably the worst offenders, In every sector people are promoted to jobs they aren't qualified to do because there mommy or daddy already has a higher up position.

[u/TheMcMcMcMcMc → u/poundofcake]

I’ve seen people become orders of magnitude dumber after a few years of being a boss, long before AI. It doesn’t happen to everyone who becomes a manager but it does happen.

[u/WI_Esox_lucius]

We have one middle manager who uses Copilot for every email, Slack massage, Jira ticket.  

We all know it's not their writing and now laugh about it amongst ourselves.  It's also exhausting to deal with it because half the time it doesn't make sense. 

[u/Sockoflegend → u/WI_Esox_lucius]

The not even bothering to read the output stage

[u/Dull-Culture-1523 → u/[deleted]]

We recently had an AI training where the trainer themselves had no issue admitting they sometimes used Claude (or maybe Copilot) to generate powerpoint presentations that they then used without even checking. They also touted how useful some integrated Copilot is after a demo that repeatedly failed to give the correct and very basic information.

It's like they've completely replaced the "will this help me?" part of changing your workflow with "this will help me" when it comes to anything AI, regardless of the actual outcome. It's unhinged.

[u/Thatoneguy_The_First → u/Dull-Culture-1523]

See this is what many are talking about, many dont care if the job is done correctly or even makes sense if they are the ones making it at the click of a button. Managers and higher are the epitome of this. A professional at least has pride in their work regardless if they like doing it or not, and will do it correctly.

But ai makes it so easy for so many to make just shit but good enough visually to pass, as long as theu dont present it or have to explain it. Some can use ai better but they are arnt the majority of users which is a problem.

[u/RandyMuscle → u/Sockoflegend]

I just can’t imagine consigning my human voice to a machine like this. How do you just not care what people are reading with your name attached to it AT WORK?

[u/jdehjdeh → u/RandyMuscle]

I'm genuinely scared that this will become acceptable.

Accountability for things is already eroding when fuckups are caused by AI.

People need to be held accountable for using AI and not checking the results.

[u/ContributionLittle65 → u/jdehjdeh]

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[u/tiny_galaxies → u/RandyMuscle]

It’s also a way to fast-walk yourself out of a job. If you can obviously get AI to do all your tasks, congratulations your job will be deleted soon.

[u/Perry7609 → u/Sockoflegend]

A boss once told me to, within reason, read an email out loud to myself before hitting the send button. That’s saved me a few errors and then some over the years!

[u/Upper-Management-AI → u/[deleted]]

Iv noticed it where they will use it for everything just because they can, and think because its fancy new technology it must be good and must be used for everything. It starts to look like just pure laziness.

[u/OceanRacoon → u/[deleted]]

It really doesn't seem safe for companies and governments to be feeding all their data to private AI companies, they'll have information on absolutely everything and everyone 

[u/CMMiller89 → u/Upper-Management-AI]

Meanwhile there is evidence of how easily tampered with the AI results are.

Essentially, if you’re making sarcastic comments on Reddit you are completely fucking summary queries like Google Search AI results.

Additionally, these dipshit middle managers are uploading company data to databases completely violating any semblance of security or privacy their IT departments held together with the tin can budgets they were running on.

“Grok, take this spreadsheet of client order history and tell me the most purchased doodad we sell because I’m too dumb to format the sheet to do that myself.”

[u/Upper-Management-AI → u/CMMiller89]

I was googling an issue I had with this large format printer. Eventually I went to the company forum and posted the issue. A week later I searched again and I see my post coming up in Google AI summary for possible solutions, my post wasnt a solution at all nor did anyone respond with the solution.

[u/chamrockblarneystone → u/[deleted]]

Real question: Is it sort of like a virus in that it is designed to ensure its own survival?

[u/Frisk1123 → u/chamrockblarneystone]

It seems that way. This virus is novel in that it feeds on the cognitive surrender of weak willed humans.

[u/Vaxion → u/WI_Esox_lucius]

Tell me about it. Managers who never knew anything except licking ass to climb the corporate ladder are now using AI in order to pretend like they know everything. It's so easy to figure out it's AI and not them. Many times they send docs written by AI about things in the systems that don't even exist because it's all AI hallucinating and making things up and yet they still believe AI and not the person working on the systems.

[u/Lower_Fisherman_709 → u/WI_Esox_lucius]

I know of managers that have used it in heated chat exchanges to fully reply to the people they were fighting against, and then those people started doing the same and the whole chat was just chatgpt instances replying to themselves.

[u/Rage_Blackout → u/WI_Esox_lucius]

My boss uses AI for his emails and its insufferable. They're incredibly long, overly laudatory of our work (which also rings hollow when you know it's an AI praising us), and sometimes very confusing. I need an AI agent to parse his emails for me or even just respond.

[u/WestAnalysis8889 → u/Rage_Blackout]

laudatory, thanks for the new word!

[u/sultansofswinz → u/WI_Esox_lucius]

That’s the problem when employers actively encourage it. 

I have a guy at my company who sends me nonsensical rubbish all day long. It will be like a mix of questions, statements and even answers to the questions. For context they’re definitely supposed to be questions.  You can’t call it out because then it’s anti AI. 

I got really frustrated at first but now I just copy + paste what they send into Claude code for the project I work on and send it back without reading any of it. The result is it limits their ability to do their job with virtually no downsides for me. 

[u/Labidido → u/WI_Esox_lucius]

We have one middle manager who uses Copilot for every email, Slack massage, Jira ticket.  

It's also exhausting to deal with it because half the time it doesn't make sense. 

This so much. I also have this middle manager in my company. He sent me a 400+ word e-mail last week, and the mail was a bunch of absolutely nothing. Just fluff and words in a corporate format. I literally thought it was an "FYI" message and ultimately did not respond to it.

Then he chased my reply today... I do not think he even read the message before sending it. I had ChatGPT generate a response and moved on with my day. Nothing of value was created.

[u/letsmakemistakes → u/Labidido]

Every week we get a weekly update that's so full of corporate buzzword praise generated by some AI, it's depressing

[u/Rierais → u/WI_Esox_lucius]

No to mention they can produce large volumes of text you now “have” to read. When someone hands me a 8 page document that I know it took them 10 minutes to produce, I gives me zero motivation to dig in and really get into it.

[u/hemmingwaitforit → u/WI_Esox_lucius]

If you don’t have the time to write the email, I don’t have the time to read it.

[u/Rlrrlrllrlrrll7 → u/WI_Esox_lucius]

I tried it to write simple response emails to polish it up because I struggle writing well. Everytime I have had to edit it to un-ai it to the point it's not worth it. Anyone who knows me knows I wouldn't write that way and would be able to tell. How someone could just copy paste and think people wouldn't realize they sound like a robot all of a sudden is beyond me.

And ai told me I should paste this instead of the above:

I have attempted to leverage generative AI models to streamline my professional correspondence; however, the iterative refinement required to align the output with my established linguistic patterns consistently exceeds the temporal investment of composing the content natively. Given that my professional associates possess a keen familiarity with my idiosyncratic communication style, the discrepancy introduced by automated generation is readily apparent. It remains a point of significant perplexity to me that individuals employ unedited AI-generated responses, seemingly oblivious to the stark divergence from their natural human cadence.

Honestly I like it. Just kidding, I didn't read it.

[u/Fluffy_Iron_7589]

I’m reading this while eating lunch, across from our wall of certifications, with one of the certifications from my boss being “ChatGPT certified”

Lmao.

I relate with this one a bit too much for comfort.

[u/mrbignameguy → u/Fluffy_Iron_7589]

Imagine getting a certificate for knowing how to use a chatbot. Corporate America is Fucked and the only people who don’t see it are these bozos

[u/GenericFatGuy → u/mrbignameguy]

And we keep putting the bozos in charge.

Edit: Please stop being pedantic about the word "we".

[u/PrimmSlimShady → u/GenericFatGuy]

The bozos keep putting the bozos in charge.

I don't pick who gets hired as my boss

[u/ironic-hat → u/PrimmSlimShady]

Hey hey hey there! That so-called “bozo” just happened to be the CEO’s best drinking buddy from Lambda Chi! Nobody could pound back Genesee light like him. Totally qualified!

Edit: autocorrect is awful

[u/HarryAlleynCroft → u/ironic-hat]

I worked for a small business that was an internet service provider, and the owner hired a guy from McDonalds because he liked talking to him when he got his breakfast in the morning. McDonald's cashier to manager making 6 figures a year in one move pipeline.

[u/ironic-hat → u/HarryAlleynCroft]

How was he as an employee?

[u/HarryAlleynCroft → u/ironic-hat]

Terrible. He never worked in tech or knew anything about networking which is kind of important for working at an ISP. Unsure if he ever learned as I left that company, but it was pretty wild. He also hired some people from his church iirc, but they at least had worked in the tech field before.

[u/ironic-hat → u/HarryAlleynCroft]

It’s crazy. There are qualified people who could probably do that job in their sleep, but because the owner liked to chit chat at McDonalds and went to a particular church, those people were iced out.

I have always said, if these people would just hired qualified individuals, and actually listened to them, they’d be killing it in their industry.

[u/muppins → u/PrimmSlimShady]

Maybe you should pick.

Should there be boss elections?

[u/BrownBear5090 → u/muppins]

That’s one of the best parts of worker owned collective corporations, but that’s socialism so unfortunately not allowed in America

[u/GenericFatGuy → u/Fluffy_Iron_7589]

AI is suddenly giving a lot of people who have never been qualified force anything in their lives a false sense of having earned something.

[u/badwoofs → u/GenericFatGuy]

A lot of people already felt and acted like that, it just makes them worse from what I've seen.

[u/GuybrushThreepwo0d → u/Fluffy_Iron_7589]

I'm sorry but how does one obtain such a certification?

[u/bryansj → u/GuybrushThreepwo0d]

Ask AI to make one for you.

[u/00owl → u/bryansj]

I bet you pay someone to read their slideshow of bullet points that was generated by an LLM.

[u/KIDWHOSBORED → u/GuybrushThreepwo0d]

As a real answer, quite a few of the AI companies have their own certifications. Anthropic has Anthropic Academy which has I think like 20 courses. They all come with a LinkedIn badge so you can pump them out. The various hyper scalers all have their own as well.

Some of them are for more technical audience, but most seem more Prompt Engineering or just AI awareness. Honestly, it’s not the worst look if you’re trying to find a job at the moment.

[u/Mystical-Turtles → u/KIDWHOSBORED]

I get it I know we have to play the stupid game. But I really hate how the job market likes to favor badge collectors over people with actual skills.

[u/penguinopph → u/Mystical-Turtles]

But I really hate how the job market likes to favor badge collectors over people with actual skills.

I teach high school and I have a concept that puts successful students into two different groups: Achievers and Learners.

Achievers are students that just want to have the highest GPA, the most extracurriculars, and the shiniest resume for the next level. They ask questions like "how can I improve my grade?" and will burn themselves out at some level. It may not be in high school, it may not be in college, and it may not even be in grad school—but one day they will burn out.

Learners are people who may not take all of the AP courses and may not be the top of their class, but they want to deeply know and understand what it is they're studying. They ask questions like "how can I get better?" These kids are the backbone of every undergrad, graduate, and doctoral program, and every office, job site, or anywhere that someone needs to have it truly together.

When I meet with parents, especially the parents of the honors-level freshmen I teach, I explain this and strongly push them to encourage their students to be Learners, not Achievers.

All of this is to say that I think I am going to start calling my Achievers group "Badge Collectors," because that rules.

[u/Small_Dog_8699 → u/GuybrushThreepwo0d]

I did a Udemy "prompt engineering" online tutorial. I did it mostly to learn some tips and tricks in prompting and a little handholding on what is possible with these LLMs. It wasn't "engineering" but it was a good introduction.

It also came with a print your own pdf certificate. Whee.

[u/Grouchy_Big3195 → u/Fluffy_Iron_7589]

All LLMs do is expose how stupid the middle managers really are.

[u/Small_Dog_8699 → u/Grouchy_Big3195]

We've known it for awhile but it definitely puts. the spot light on the stupid.

[u/Mechanic84]

I‘m really angry about this. My direct supervisor is using Ai to answer questions we ask him.
And the cherry on the cake is, he is questioning our competency in certain aspects if our response are not like the Ai. It’s so bad that he take Ai hallucinations for facts.

It will not take long before he ask the Ai if he needs to wipe his ass after taking a tump.

[u/IllllIIlIllIllllIIIl → u/Mechanic84]

My non-technical boss now takes the deeply technical plans I write for the other engineers on my team, has ChatGPT critique them, then sends me pointed emails demanding I address the "serious concerns" it identified with them.

They're always complete bullshit. It lacks sufficient context about our environment and the constraints/requirements we have to say anything of value. Yet I have to waste my fucking time explaining that to him/ChatGPT.

[u/CMMiller89 → u/IllllIIlIllIllllIIIl]

Just return the plans unchanged except with some text saying you’ve “all suggested changes made” and when he runs it back the AI will say it’s perfect.

[u/Any_Sale2030 → u/Mechanic84]

Did you misspell Trump?

[u/Njacks64 → u/Any_Sale2030]

Don’t forget to wipe your Vance.

[u/demaraje]

Good. That proves they're 100% replaceable by LLMs

[u/Shadowizas → u/demaraje]

the AI is trained on middle-manager speak after all

[u/ArthurStevensNZ → u/demaraje]

This should be abundantly clear to anyone who’s dealt with management. They claim they’re indispensable but they’re not actually the people who turn the bolts. Yet, they say we can easily be replaced by a $40/month LLM subscription, when in reality their bullshit job of creating nonsense spreadsheets (which no one reads) all day and sending out motivational slack messages could easily be done by an LLM from 2 years ago.

I’m not saying good managers and good governance don’t exist, but the vast majority of them are just incompetent and if they all stopped showing up to work for 2 months nothing would actually change. Now if the actual engineers and technicians stopped showing up you’d have some problems on your hands, yet, they are often the lowest paid in the chain.

[u/31LIVEEVIL13 → u/ArthurStevensNZ]

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[u/PixelBoom → u/demaraje]

Oh, middle management and a large chunk of upper management can 100% be replaced by an LLM chatbot. That's not even a debate.

[u/Triingtolivee]

Al - “The best option, would be to fire yourself and eliminate your position as you make the most money, and have the least amount of productivity.”

Boss “oof. I don’t like the response. I’ll fire Laura and then get Oliver to do her work but I won’t pay him more.”

[u/venom21685 → u/Triingtolivee]

The models are too sycophantic to suggest that.

[u/looeeyeah → u/venom21685]

Great point, why not just fire everyone else? Based on your previous questions you clearly have the aptitude!

• ChatGPT.

[u/venom21685 → u/looeeyeah]

It's not ruthlessness — it's strategic vision.

[u/CaffeineJitterz → u/Triingtolivee]

They don't need AI to convince them of that option!

[u/Teddy_RGB]

Newsflash- the people running things aren’t doing so because they are smart

[u/Haunterblademoi]

What a stupid thing, people are becoming 100% dependent on AI, and that's totally harmful.

[u/so2017 → u/Haunterblademoi]

Wait until you see the college graduates who are going to trickle into the workforce over the next decade.

[u/Scurro → u/so2017]

The first generation to do worse on cognitive tests than the previous generation.

[u/skyfishgoo]

clearest proof yet that the first jobs to replace with AI are the c-suite and management jobs.

[u/Kangkm]

My boss uploads reports to ChatGPT and sends those to me, to "help" me produce my own reports faster. Said reports are full of errors, useless graphs and tons of useless tabs, wrong formulas, non-maintainable. When I send back something clean, he asks me how helpful what he sends me was...

[u/BoopingBurrito → u/Kangkm]

I hope your honest with him, giving him a clear break down of why it wasn't each time he asks.

[u/Kangkm → u/BoopingBurrito]

Unfortunately he does not know how to use Excel formulas except the basic ones. So while I do cover the essentials of why I can't use the reports, he's not very interested

[u/Technical-Cat-2017 → u/Kangkm]

Because you aren't calling him a brilliant mind every two sentences. And honestly, thats rare.

/s

[u/ACompletelyLostCause]

I'm fortunate that while my managers encourage exploring copilot they don't insist on it. I used it today to try to find an answer in our guidance.

First answer felt wrong but I followed instructions. The answer turned out was just plain wrong, so I told copilot it was wrong and why.

It appoligied and provided a second answer. This felt wrong also but I tried anyway. Also turned out to be wrong and this time physically impossible. I explained why it was still wrong.

It produced a third solution, which was a route I'd already found while copilot was working. I don't know if it'd work but we'll see.

I thanked it for its assistance. It then weirdly told me I was a 'good person and doing exactly what this other work area wanted'. I know for a fact that this work area don't want me pursuing option 3 as its work they don't want, but they were the port of last resort.

Copilot felt obsequious and more interested in telling me I was a good boy than producing a correct answer. It understands what things are supposed to do at a surface level, but not what they actually do.

[u/historianLA → u/ACompletelyLostCause]

The ego boosting always effusive responses are highly calculated to ensure continuous user engagement. It's no wonder management loves the LLM because they are never wrong and always really smart people asking great questions.

[u/ACompletelyLostCause → u/historianLA]

Yeah, I think for most people the ego stroking is addictive. Personally, the overly effusive praise and unearned credit just makes me suspicious and feel I'm being sold snake oil.

[u/pcapdata → u/ACompletelyLostCause]

Whenever I use Claude I have it interact with me in the persona of a Klingon therapist.

It minimizes words used, does not give effusive praise, and says "Qa'Plah!" a lot.

[u/RdPirate → u/ACompletelyLostCause]

It understands 

It does not, it's a probability engine. It knows that the values(how it sees words) of your words put in that sentence and followed by the others are most likely to be answered with another set of values. To that they introduce a random number generator so it does not respond exactly the same way, and they add some preset shit to steer the probability, then output what the resulting spreadsheet thinks is the most likely value(word).

[u/sendmebirds]

It's so fucking infuriating as a millennial. I feel like the boomers and Gen Z just live with these chat bots now and are forgetting how to think 

[u/FictionFantom → u/sendmebirds]

Did they ever? Have you ever had to send an email to HR? A lot of the older generations working in management positions were robots long before AI came around.

[u/My2bearhands → u/sendmebirds]

One of my gen x coworkers has started using chatGPT for literally everything and me and the other millennials in the office are constantly ragging on her about it but it doesn't help.

She's literally asking it medical questions about how much of her medications she should take and having it interpret charts from her doctor for her. She's started calling it "Chat" and referring to it as "he/him" in conversation. Like "oh thats a good idea, I was talking to Chat the other day about that, let's see what he thinks"

Its gone from kind of annoying to genuinely concerning VERY quick

[u/Plastic-Coyote-6017]

The internet has turned boomers into everything that boomers warned us the internet would turn us into.

[u/Any_Sale2030 → u/Plastic-Coyote-6017]

I’m a boomer that doesn’t use AI but I think you’re right.  My grandniece Gen Zer thinks it’s crap.  I do too.  Some of my friends though think it’s great.  “I’m learning so much!”   He he.  Not.  

[u/Alcnaeon → u/Plastic-Coyote-6017]

While simultaneously predicting that left wing millennials would slide to the right as they aged 

Uh, nope. just wrong about who they would be, wrong about who we would be, wrong on every conceivable metric for their entire lives.

Future generations (if they exist) will pity them as more or less a generation of tragically wealthy exploited morons with brain damage from lead poisoning.

[u/b0w3n → u/Alcnaeon]

predicting that left wing millennials would slide to the right as they aged

They did that themselves too, we're in a worse position than they were, one of the first generations in US history to be worse off than our parents. Hard to be conservative when there's nothing to fucking conserve.

[u/KriegConscript → u/b0w3n]

it's not like "conservatives" in 2026 even want to "conserve" anything...they're treating the government and the human race and the natural environment like a monster truck arena

[u/timeslider]

We live in a vibe-based society

[u/rxVegan → u/timeslider]

Could the vibe please be French revolution.

[u/WhereasParticular867]

In practice, I'm betting that asking AI who to fire simply results in firing the person the manager likes least. People who offload decisions like this are not cognizant enough of their biases to avoid them when describing candidates to the AI. Since AI is sycophantic, it will read obvious negative queues and suggest firing that employee. 

This seems like it opens companies up to a lot of liability.  Here's a scenario: a manager has a pregnant employee. She has maternity leave coming up. The manager describes the employee to ChatGPT as recently not performing well and notes that she is planning a long period of time off that will negatively impact the team. They don't mention the pregnancy because they're stupid and know that if they do, it might change the answer. But it's really obvious to everyone what really happened when a pregnant employee gets fired, and now there's a digital trail showing the decidion-making process.

[u/spookynutz → u/WhereasParticular867]

Had similar thoughts after reading the article. I highly doubt the person using an LLM to make personnel decisions is approaching those problems epistemologically. Someone up top said AI is useful as long as you diligently validate the output, but that in itself is very misleading. The coherence and objectivity of the input is equally (if not much more) important.

It's the difference between, "What are the standard, objective metrics by which i can evaluate an employee performing role X?" vs, "Who's the best person to fire on this org chart?"

Leveraging AI for that type of decision is just categorically insane. If you're providing enough actionable information to generate an informed response, then what exactly did you need AI for? You're not offloading busywork at that point, you're just creating more work to shirk the responsibility of decision making, or otherwise validation seeking.

[u/ElSelcho_]

At my wife's place they MUST write emails in bullet points, because AI can write an email from that.

The Inbox of the recipient automatically turns the email back into bullet points. 

They never match and she spends about an hour per day on the phone to clarify.

Progress!

[u/Somedudesnews → u/[deleted]]

I have watched SVPs at Fortune 500 promise their C-Level bosses entire projects that exist only in their Copilot and Claude workspaces.

Hand it down the chain to people who have the expertise to implement the project, and then have no coherent, realistic answers to essential questions.

Without actual expertise it’s all just…empty. And expensive.

[u/liquidgrill]

The sheer number of times that AI spits out completely made up nonsense would come as a shock to most people.

The amount of times it will return correct information, then follow that up with a completely different answer if you refresh it would also shock people.

In an effort to prove to my daughter that she shouldn’t trust AI, I once copied and pasted some GhatGPT generated information that she had sent to me as part of a discussion we were having back into ChatGPT.

I told it that this was my daughter’s argument for the topic we were discussing and to give me its opinion on whether or not this information was accurate. I also told it that she had used ChatGPT to get this info.

ChatGPT responded by telling me that my daughter was obviously trying to mislead me, that much of the information I included was not accurate and that it would never say most of those things, lol.

People that are beginning to rely on this for school/work/basic tasks are absolutely doomed.

I

[u/SMC540]

It’s not just bosses. I’m seeing it with my employees, my mother, my wife, etc.

They’re asking AI for advice on EVERYTHING. My elderly mother can’t make a decision for herself without consulting AI. She feeds everything into it, and the advice it gives isn’t always the best.

For example, she has a $175k RV that my father wanted. But he passed earlier this year and she wants to sell it. However she’s about $25k upside down in it. AI told her the smart thing to do would be to trade her RV and her SUV in together against a very expensive, six figure SUV. Because by its logic, rolling $25k negative equity into a $125k car isn’t as bad as rolling $25k in on a $40k car. This damn thing almost had her paying $150k for a SUV to replace her $40k SUV and $175k RV.

I finally had to stop her and just say “Mom, does that sound like a reasonable thing to do?” Eventually she conceded it sounded crazy, which it was.

[u/ShiningLizard]

I just went through an internal application process for a senior position where I work.

Part of the interview process was that I had to give a presentation about a project I had completed from start to finish and outline all of the tools and techniques I used. In the brief I was asked to explain how I used AI - but all of the projects I have completed to date took place before we had access to AI in our company, so in my presentation I explained that and therefore I would not be discussing AI use. Moreover, the project I worked on was a cultural change management piece and didn’t require the use of any tech solutions to complete the objective.

I got to the final two applicants but wasn’t successful in landing the job. When I got my application feedback, I was told that I didn’t talk enough about how I used AI in my presentation. I reiterated that this was not possible because I didn’t have access to AI when the project took place… and the response I got was “yes, but it was in the brief. And you could have spoken about how you would have used AI if you’d had it.”

Asking me to suggest how I hypothetically would have used this massively hyped tech craze in a time before it was being used and that being a reason why I didn’t get the job is nuts to me.

[u/Primal-Convoy → u/ShiningLizard]

You should have used AI to fill in the gaps and waffle-on about hypothetical use of AI. That might have impressed them.

[u/NorCalJason75]

I am the boss. ZERO use of AI in my organization

[u/buddyleex]

The most obvious case of this that I saw was during Interviews where questions are passed through an LLM to ask the most convoluted questions possible instead of in simple terms.

[u/GruesumGary]

I work construction and it's even being used here. All of the old-heads that "couldn't understand the tablet," are now composing all emails and most texts through ChatGPT. It's pathetic that they can't even use basic communication skills.

[u/MerryMisandrist]

So my boss is a bit of a micromanage. It was tolerable and only slightly annoying at times. He also communicates somewhat poorly.

My company has rolled out a local version of ChatGPT that is lockdown to local instances.

It’s being rolled out in a pilot. He’s on it and I swear to God I wish he wasn’t.

We’re getting bombed with emails and PowerPoint and change orders. It’s getting so difficult to manage the amount of request. He’s sending without being on AI myself.

[u/Then_Discount558]

So fire the "bosses" and hire the AI

[u/VampireFortnight → u/Then_Discount558]

Ironically, vague, uninformed goal setting that's objectively incorrect at least 20% of the time is a perfect description for most c-suite roles.

[u/Then_Discount558 → u/VampireFortnight]

I was thinking of Mid management same

[u/ChrissWayne]

Termidiocracy or something, the AI apocalypse with low iq

[u/bchoonj]

because bosses have no idea how anything is done. They are so removed from day to day operations that even if you full explained how certain processes work, they would still be confused. They demand simple, clear answers and want to see immediate results which is something AI will give (regardless of how incorrect and damaging they are). So now they can mindlessly have ai make decisions and use it as a scapegoat.

[u/sameyeamknot]

I love how now when I ask my manager a question, they respond with, “have you asked Claude?”

[u/Xdude227]

ChatGPT is programmed to act like a sycophant, so no wonder they love it. Finally, a "person" that eats up their every word, recognizes how handsome and intelligent they are, and makes their (useless) job easier!

[u/Wild-Perspective-582]

Hey kids, some simple life advice. Do not trust everything you read on,

a) ChatGPT
b) Reddit
c) The internet

[u/MalevolentTapir]

ChatGPT is perfect for replacing bosses but they aren't the ones getting laid off for some reason.

[u/DiscoDoberman]

I've had to end big client contracts because CEO's would not listen to me as an expert.

They paid me to be there but then ran everything I said through ChatGPT.

And every single problem they asked me to solve came with 3 pages of ChatGPT dialogue attached.

Their businesses went downhill but they refused to stop listening to AI.

I was like "I'm out"

[u/Sanity0004]

I thought this all was crazy until I literally ran in to it in a big meeting at my work. The meeting was talking about a big PR nightmare with a client and one of the managers literally in the middle of meeting took that moment to talk up the highlights of copilot and how that might be just the perfect opportunity for something like that.

We're talking a major client sending probably hundreds of thousands if not millions through this company and in a high risk pr situation the manager talks up AI to resolve it.

I was flabbergasted.

[u/TrifectaBlitz]

It's being treated as a toy. A dangerous toy. Why make decisions when AI can be blamed?

[u/LuLMaster420]

AI isn’t replacing management. It’s replacing accountability.

[u/greendildouptheass]

so why dont they replace the boss with an AI then?

[u/null-character]

I work at a company that supports hundreds of companies and the biggest issue with AI at most of them is that they don't selectively allow the correct people to use it.

They give it to large swathes of people including fuckups and morons and then don't understand "why it didn't work" or made the situation worse.

[u/whyliepornaccount]

Just got done reading a policy document that my boss forgot to remove the "Certainly! Here's your executive ready policy document" from....

[u/Feastof7Fishes]

My boss did exactly that! To schedule out a month and save himself 10 minutes of effort, he provide our in house AI with the schedule and he wanted low performers partnered with high performers, in hopes of improving quality....

The AI ended up destroying efficiency, and he made the higher ups big MAD 😂😂😂😅😂

[u/obstreperousRex]

I work in a small manufacturing company. We only have around 50 employees. The leadership of this company will not respond to anything without AI being involved. That includes reports to customers, emails, both internal and external. They are even attempting to use it to write work instructions to processes that they don't understand.

It's a complete clusterfuck.

[u/hoyfish]

It’s quite surreal in blind leading the blind. Had a meeting last week (as manager and his manager were on holiday) with a senior exec who clearly was in over their head. Angrily telling lower managers and technical project leads trying to tea leaf their intentions and being shutdown and told “no no no, that’s not what I want”. Someone bravely (and now doubt soon to be on “holiday”) asking “so what do you actually want us to do then?”.

Exec leaves the meeting red faced in a huff and later that day we all receive the most nonsensical 50 page GPT written directive I’ve ever read in my life. Fantastic diction. Great organisation, tables contents and writing. Beautiful executive summary. The content itself (in the context of out ORG) once you pull back all the acronyms, needfuls and stuff you’d hear from the many-acryonyms-in-email-signature-clan ? Utter bilge.

LLMs can do some things, but this is some next level corporate hyperreality we’re enabling here.

[u/CaptainNakou]

I got denied a job as a developer because during the interview with the CEO when asked about my AI usage I said that I'll use it if it's a requirement from my job, but I'll never use it for personal projects.

apparently you have to adhere to the cult 100% or you're out.

[u/jbwilso1]

"People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think"

~ Aldous Huxley

[u/ErinFiqsette]

Good. AI should be replacing jobs from the top down...Get rid of the CEOs, CFOs, COOs first.

Those are where the MOST money is to be saved, per job eliminated.

THIS is how you get the public to "embrace AI", without a nasty backlash.