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Loads of stories have emerged over the past few months of corporate executives realizing their all-out drive to use AI was getting them absolutely nowhere<\/a>. If anything, it was a net negative, as office workers set about wasting their budgets on costly AI tokens<\/a> to appear productive.<\/p>\n Now, it seems even top tech industry players are cutting back, as they realize their workers are frittering away money and churning out reams of low-effort AI garbage.<\/p>\n As Reuters notes<\/a>, companies like Meta are scaling back ambitious plans to lay off staffers and replace them with AI agents. Microsoft seems to be doing the same, as the Guardian reports<\/a>, after executive vice president Ryan Roslansky groused about the rise of low-quality workslop on his public-facing LinkedIn account.<\/p>\n \u201cAI slop isn\u2019t happening just on social networks\u2026 it\u2019s happening in the day to day of work,\u201d Roslansky lamented<\/a>. \u201cSomeone sent me what was clearly an AI generated doc. I read it, realized it was all AI, had my AI summarize it and ended up with nothing that brought new thinking to the idea\u2026 This is a doom loop.\u201d<\/p>\n As CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management Johnny Taylor Jr told the Guardian, corporate executives are increasingly feeling that, when it comes to AI, \u201cwe\u2019re driving the truck and building it at the same time, and that\u2019s a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIf we could all rewind\u2026 we would have introduced [this] in a more thoughtful, slow way,\u201d Taylor continued.<\/p>\n As consumer-grade AI agents make headlines for troubling capers<\/a>, practical AI at the enterprise level remains stunted. And though low-effort AI slop might be the most prevalent consequence of AI in the workplace, some side effects are much worse.<\/p>\n