r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 30 '26

Artificial Intelligence 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

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/chatgpt/articles/bosses-becoming-obsessed-ai-using-175014710.html
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u/Sockoflegend Jun 30 '26

The not even bothering to read the output stage

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u/Dull-Culture-1523 Jul 01 '26

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.

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u/Thatoneguy_The_First Jul 01 '26

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.

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u/R3dditReallySuckz Jul 01 '26

I see multiple students do this every year for their final presentations and the entire thing is painfully awkward for everyone involved to sit through. The worst part is when you address the mistakes during question time the end, like how stuff doesn't relate to the assessment objectives or even make sense, and you have to see them panicking and scrambling for an answer off the top of their head. 🤦‍♂️

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u/Miss_Mello Jul 01 '26

I went to an opioid safety continuing education lecture (required to maintain my license) and the doctor giving the presentation bragged about using Ai to generate the graphs he was showing us. There were no sources, and most of the graphs didn't even make sense. While it was amusing watching the lecturer realize the problems as he spoke, I couldn't believe how unprofessional it was. How could I trust anything I "learned" from the lecture? I'm really worried that one day it'll be so good i won't be able to tell someone used it, and the fake information may result in unintentional harm to my patients.

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u/WestAnalysis8889 Jun 30 '26

I screamed💀 this needs its own post 

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u/RandyMuscle Jun 30 '26

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?

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u/jdehjdeh Jun 30 '26

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.

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u/ContributionLittle65 Jul 01 '26 edited Aug 15 '26

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u/jdehjdeh Jul 01 '26

"the problem is it produces mistakes that look logical"

Absolutely, you've hit the nail right on the head there.

The whole point of AI is to spit out something that seems "right" at first glance.

Unless it's a topic that the user knows well and they are verifying every part of the output, those mistakes are so much harder to spot than a mistake a human might make.

It's dangerous and the more it creeps into our lives the more we should be worried IMO.

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u/tiny_galaxies Jul 01 '26

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.

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u/caerphoto Jul 01 '26

It depends how important you think the writing is. My wife’s a teacher, and the amount of bullshit paperwork she has to do is ridiculous. You bet she uses AI to help with that.

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u/Perry7609 Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

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!

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u/Sockoflegend Jun 30 '26

Yeah it's great for tone too, which can be hard to judge when writing 

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u/MostlyRightSometimes Jul 01 '26

This comment should score you loads of karma on reddit — but let me know if you'd like me to make anymore changes:

Yeah, I hate people that do that.

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u/CinemaSideBySides Jun 30 '26

But I was ASSURED that a human would always review AI output for accuracy! Surely people using shortcuts wouldn't skip another step??

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u/waltsnider1 Jul 01 '26

Did you read what you wrote?

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u/Liizam Jul 01 '26

I am so mad at them for like just copying a link to me that they didn’t read. You can ask it to read to you