Do they know we can tell it's AI slop?
What do I do when the entrepreneurs I work for send out AI slop in their communications?
I work for a great group of entrepreneurs as CTO/fCFO. They are all sales guys. In my childhood and professional career, I have seen so many toxic partnerships. I don’t waste any time on those anymore and I genuinely respect the guys I work for.
So, to the main question, what do I do when it’s blatant that they are just copying AI slop from Grok or chatGPT? I notice it all the time. But I genuinely respect these guys (unlike my son’s inadequate math teacher who pastes AI slop into emails to me…). It’s an 80/20 issue. For a majority of their audience, they make a positive and knowledgeable impression. But for the rest of us, it’s it takes them down a notch. I don’t want them embarrassing themselves in front of our bankers/financers/corporate partners.
Three recent examples: (1) Critique of a new SEO site pre-launch. We ended up firing the firm, but they lost all respect once the email was sent. (2) interviewing a new controller, so apparent when they pulled out canned questions from an LLM. (3) a proposed job costing procedure for a new entity/line of business. A 10 page document like I was used to seeing when I worked at public companies. Disconnected from the current state of the business.
I love these guys. Is it possible to send a message about how they are viewed without offending? It's clear from a few conversations with pro-AI people that they never valued what they're trying to replace. To them, everything is content, and content is fungible. They don't have the taste or the curiosity to appreciate creative output. They don't notice that the AI's output is crap. It looks like good stuff to someone who doesn't know what good stuff is. I like motorcycles, so I notice them and drool over some of them. My partner just see them all as two-wheeled vehicles. I think pro-AI people see all creative output with the same lack of discernment. Send them this https://meetingslop.com I’m exhausted by AI generated plans, decks, minutes. It says everything without saying anything This itself feels generated by AI. Especially the last few paragraphs in there. Of course it is, we’re full circle. Just the conversations though, the rest is mostly mine Content generated using AI can be high value or low value depending on how much effort the person generating it put in it. If they are generating it and sharing without verifying, that's just sad. what do I do when it’s blatant that they are just copying AI slop from Grok or chatGPT Don’t discount the possibility that what they are doing better serves the business than how you might pursue the same objectives. Even if it is not better, committing to their decisions may be better than raising a point of procedure. Because businesses don’t live and die by the quality of ten page documents. They live and die through relationships and LLM’s are perfect for creating artifacts that don’t matter very much (if at all). Or to put it another way, your concern is not urgent and probably not important to business suvival. Sales matter more. Good luck. You are spot on, this is why I am conflicted. How I feel does not matter. The net benefit to the company may not be the same as what I see. The question on my mind: what do we do in a few years (or sooner) when the AI's have become good enough to pass the Turing test and we just can't tell anymore whether the response is AI slop or not? Hopefully retire, because I'd literally rather be dead than go much deeper into this shitty corporate world borne of AI. How can you be sure what you're seeing is AI slop, as opposed to, for example, corporate-speak or just documents modeled on their past work wherever, etc? Whatever AI generates is considered slop or is there a scale? Every ai generated passage if text is the same, just with the words changed. You wont unsee it