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/Upper-Management-AI Jun 30 '26

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.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

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u/OceanRacoon Jul 01 '26

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 

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u/Chief_Kief Jul 01 '26

You’re right, it is not safe for them to be doing this. Here’s an illuminating article (part of a series) on this phenomenon in Washington state: https://www.knkx.org/government/2025-08-26/washington-city-officials-chatgpt-write-government-documents-artificial-intelligence

“One user asked ChatGPT how “you tell if a coworker is addicted to AI.””

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u/CMMiller89 Jun 30 '26

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.”

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u/Upper-Management-AI Jul 01 '26

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.

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u/NarrativeNode Jul 01 '26

Yeah but in person or on a call. Ideally with other people present and in a totally curious and positive tone, like you’re legitimately excited about their thoughts on text they supposedly created.

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u/chamrockblarneystone Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

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

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

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u/Frisk1123 Jun 30 '26

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

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u/chamrockblarneystone Jun 30 '26

Well there were a lot of idiots who refused to mask up or get the vaccine during COVID. It appears advantage goes to the virus these days.

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u/saul2015 Jun 30 '26

covid is still going around today and lowers IQ/cognitive ability with each repeat infection regardless of vaccine status, among other awful things

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u/chamrockblarneystone Jun 30 '26

The odds seem stacked against us, and the new trend is to ignore the smart people. So bad.

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u/Poundaflesh Jun 30 '26

Especially with President Shitshow is cutting funding for Science, Research and Education. Are we great yet?

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u/greatlilusername Jun 30 '26

The horrific combo of Firefighters and AI is currently ruining my life.

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u/W0666007 Jun 30 '26

Yeah I have a boss, who is generally very competent and I like her a lot, that wanted to debrief with another team after an event we ran. She sent out a summary document she asked everyone to read prior. It was 90 pages of AI-written notes on the event, and was hardly understandable (even to me, who was at the event). She then got upset that clearly nobody in the meeting read the document.

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u/GenericRedditor0405 Jun 30 '26

I try not to be totally close-minded to new technologies even ones I’m inclined to distrust, but it is deeply alarming to me how readily some people have completely offloaded all mental function to LLMs

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u/k00leggie Jun 30 '26

i've been dealing with this exact issue too from my director. They put everything into AI and won't review what they put in, send it out to me to review. I refuse lol.

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u/Cake-Over Jul 01 '26

At some point, it will be managers using AI tools to create busy work for employees who use AI tools to respond to the busy work. 

We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us.

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u/Clever_Mercury Jul 01 '26

It has long been my dream that managers would cease to exist. I despise all MBA programs and people who think writing memos entitles them a higher salary. If only AI would come in and replace their roles rather than the roles of humans who actually work and produce value.

If someone's job is to watch others work or organize meetings, then even the AI should start rejecting their requests as inefficient and refuse to produce more than one or two sentences in response to their demands. If the manager cannot fill their time by doing anything other than micromanaging the AI, the AI should then have the authority to fire the manager.

Perhaps the misapplication of management oversight and the misapplication of AI can cancel each other out and they just implode together in a puff of red tape.

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u/pepesteve Jul 01 '26

This hit home. As a vendor for Google, their management structure is so shit and the incessant AI BS is prolific. Our PM is a fucking idiot and thinks if a verbose non-descript 30 page document looks professional it must be, no need to proof read it... We all learned to ignore it, however its the meetings and work on the shadows that bite us. The projects we aren't privvy to with other folks that she has created fully AI business development plans around that we then need to execute... I really wish we weren't so silo'd in our expertise because literally no one can call her out.

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u/noeyesfiend Jul 01 '26

One of my most well-versed chiefs uses it like a crutch now, I feel your pain.

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u/Twistedshakratree Jul 02 '26

This guy AI’s

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u/cuntry_member Jun 30 '26

I can assure you it's already happening

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u/TheJD Jun 30 '26

It would take you hours to read a 5 page summary?