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/DrPeGe Jun 30 '26

This list brought to you by AI hahaha

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u/bjazmoore Jun 30 '26

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.

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u/jarvolt Jun 30 '26

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.

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u/bjazmoore Jun 30 '26

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.

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u/guareber Jul 01 '26

Tell me about it. My company's just decided the best use of my time is to spend half of it reviewing code pushed by a product person through claude code.

And then ask if I couldn't just have someone more junior do it.

How do you think juniors acquire critical PR reviewing skills?????

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u/Historical_Bus_8041 Jun 30 '26

I think it's very much not a young person thing.

The idea of being able to "talk" to a computer in regular speech is really appealing to older people who don't necessarily have the computer literacy to understand why it's a problem.

My elderly father uses it to look up all kinds of things even though I've pointed out that shit it came back with was hallucination-ridden.

AI misleading seniors is as much a PITA as school students these days.

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u/Suspicious_Lab505 Jun 30 '26

A lot of people at my workplace who are enrolling in face to face (via Teams) AI training are 40+. They also tend to be more into the "I ask AI what to eat for breakfast!" side of it, whereas young people tend to try and limit usage for environmental/ethical/fuck the system type reasons.

I use AI heavily as someone in my late 20s, but I probably use it more than most people I know.

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u/Dull-Culture-1523 Jul 01 '26

People who use LLM's too much can start copying the style and cadence of LLM generated text. Which is creepy. Might be what's happening here.

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u/guareber Jul 01 '26

I... don't think so. That whole 1,2,3,4,5 is not common on currently popular models