Finding this everywhere in my professional life. Everyone's brains have collectively fallen out over the last six months. Once you start to see it you cannot unsee it.
the younger generation hate it too
Interested to know what you are seeing professionally. It's obvious in some emails even just from formatting.
Also, slightly worryingly, some sales people are calling out points on contracts they can probably have only got from a copilot review.
"The device had already been on the market for about three years. Until then, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had received unconfirmed reports of seven instances in which the device malfunctioned and another report of a patient injury. Since AI was added to the device, the FDA has received unconfirmed reports of at least 100 malfunctions and adverse events.
Cerebrospinal fluid reportedly leaked from one patient’s nose. In another reported case, a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients each allegedly suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured.
Reuters could not independently verify the lawsuits’ allegations."
A recent example - I saw one of our executive leadership team respond to an advice email with a response that I am sure was fully AI. As in a prompt along the lines of: "I've received this email and advice. please ask 3 questions to make it look like I've read it and want to understand/clarify". To the point where I put that instruction in and got basically the same email out.
Our HR function is also very bad for AI content, lots of the classic giveaways in their email content.
Linkedin is also almost exclusively AI content now. I know it is a cesspit so what should I expect. If I ever wanted to post someting on it (which I don't), I think I would do it handwritten to show it was actually from me.
You might observe this happening in your own life. One sign might be that you’ve moved away from creating an initial unpolished version of a task. Not so long ago, you might have started with a rough draft – a messy, human brainstorming process on a whiteboard, a notepad or the back of a napkin.
You may now feel more comfortable with the “prompt-and-accept” reflex: asking for and accepting solutions, rather than trying to tease out your own ideas and solve problems.
If your first instinct for every task is to ask an AI tool to give you a starting point, you are skipping the most vital part of thinking. This is the heavy lifting of structure, logic and sparking new ideas which excite us.
Another sign of atrophy is a shrinking of your frustration threshold. If you find that after only 60 seconds of mental effort you feel an itch to see what AI suggests, your stamina for ambiguity, a little self-doubt and frustration is probably compromised. Impatience cuts off the cognitive space needed for divergent thinking – the ability to generate multiple unique solutions.
Do you find yourself accepting AI-generated output without questioning its validity? Or do you find yourself unable to trust your own gut instinct without checking with an AI search? This may be a sign that you are shifting from being a decision-maker to a decision-approver or worse, a passive passenger of your own thinking process."
This is what will kill AI, it's just whether it kills us first...
Those plug wiring illustrations. Wtaf.
"Recognising atrophy
You might observe this happening in your own life. One sign might be that you’ve moved away from creating an initial unpolished version of a task. Not so long ago, you might have started with a rough draft – a messy, human brainstorming process on a whiteboard, a notepad or the back of a napkin.
You may now feel more comfortable with the “prompt-and-accept” reflex: asking for and accepting solutions, rather than trying to tease out your own ideas and solve problems.
If your first instinct for every task is to ask an AI tool to give you a starting point, you are skipping the most vital part of thinking. This is the heavy lifting of structure, logic and sparking new ideas which excite us.
Another sign of atrophy is a shrinking of your frustration threshold. If you find that after only 60 seconds of mental effort you feel an itch to see what AI suggests, your stamina for ambiguity, a little self-doubt and frustration is probably compromised. Impatience cuts off the cognitive space needed for divergent thinking – the ability to generate multiple unique solutions.
Do you find yourself accepting AI-generated output without questioning its validity? Or do you find yourself unable to trust your own gut instinct without checking with an AI search? This may be a sign that you are shifting from being a decision-maker to a decision-approver or worse, a passive passenger of your own thinking process."
This is a reasonable analysis.
However, query the extent to which there are roles from which the output from a human not pondering and self-reflecting but rather taking AI suggestions and performing more quickly and efficiently is better (more productive) even if it is 80% correct than the alternative, and this is measurable.
I hate AI slop, and I hate the whole compromise strategy and where this will take us, but it's not a totally stupid approach in many cases.
Everyone hates AI unless they’re selling it
My mini loll's refuse to use it, firstly because it makes people lazy, second the effect on the environment and thirdly the money its giving the tech bro's who are in bed with Trump.
Xennial Worrier Princess11 Feb 26 13:45
Everyone hates AI unless they’re selling it
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I love AI, it's incredibly useful for getting shitt you shouldn't have to deal with off your desk
it's certainly better than the bad old days of employing a bored disinterested secretary who is running down the clock to collect on her suspiciously dead husband's pension
luddities galore pearl clutching on this thread because a big search engine has pulled back the curtain on their smoke and mirrors
If you are routinely getting shit you shouldn't have to deal with on your desk that's a you problem, pal.
Heh. We only need half a sumo going forward. It’s not us it’s you.
What YWTF said at 12.25 is absolutely correct. AI is fine if you're prepared to accept 80% performance. It's just that some jobs need as damn near 100% as possible, or should aim for that even if not required...
it's certainly better than the bad old days of employing a bored disinterested secretary
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If they ever manage come up with a version of AI that giggles when you dandle it on your knee while dictating fee notes in stentorian Scots I think we may have found a buyer.
sieteocho11 Feb 26 16:35
If they ever manage come up with a version of AI that giggles when you dandle it on your knee while dictating fee notes in stentorian Scots I think we may have found a buyer.
the younger generation hate it too
Interested to know what you are seeing professionally. It's obvious in some emails even just from formatting.
Also, slightly worryingly, some sales people are calling out points on contracts they can probably have only got from a copilot review.
Not seeing much obvious AI output yet though.
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/ai-enters-operating-room-reports-arise-botched-surgeries-misidentified-body-2026-02-09/
"The device had already been on the market for about three years. Until then, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had received unconfirmed reports of seven instances in which the device malfunctioned and another report of a patient injury. Since AI was added to the device, the FDA has received unconfirmed reports of at least 100 malfunctions and adverse events.
Cerebrospinal fluid reportedly leaked from one patient’s nose. In another reported case, a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients each allegedly suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured.
Reuters could not independently verify the lawsuits’ allegations."
A recent example - I saw one of our executive leadership team respond to an advice email with a response that I am sure was fully AI. As in a prompt along the lines of: "I've received this email and advice. please ask 3 questions to make it look like I've read it and want to understand/clarify". To the point where I put that instruction in and got basically the same email out.
Our HR function is also very bad for AI content, lots of the classic giveaways in their email content.
Linkedin is also almost exclusively AI content now. I know it is a cesspit so what should I expect. If I ever wanted to post someting on it (which I don't), I think I would do it handwritten to show it was actually from me.
https://theconversation.com/is-ai-hurting-your-ability-to-think-how-to-reclaim-your-brain-272834
"Recognising atrophy
You might observe this happening in your own life. One sign might be that you’ve moved away from creating an initial unpolished version of a task. Not so long ago, you might have started with a rough draft – a messy, human brainstorming process on a whiteboard, a notepad or the back of a napkin.
You may now feel more comfortable with the “prompt-and-accept” reflex: asking for and accepting solutions, rather than trying to tease out your own ideas and solve problems.
If your first instinct for every task is to ask an AI tool to give you a starting point, you are skipping the most vital part of thinking. This is the heavy lifting of structure, logic and sparking new ideas which excite us.
Another sign of atrophy is a shrinking of your frustration threshold. If you find that after only 60 seconds of mental effort you feel an itch to see what AI suggests, your stamina for ambiguity, a little self-doubt and frustration is probably compromised. Impatience cuts off the cognitive space needed for divergent thinking – the ability to generate multiple unique solutions.
Do you find yourself accepting AI-generated output without questioning its validity? Or do you find yourself unable to trust your own gut instinct without checking with an AI search? This may be a sign that you are shifting from being a decision-maker to a decision-approver or worse, a passive passenger of your own thinking process."
This is what will kill AI, it's just whether it kills us first...
Those plug wiring illustrations. Wtaf.
This is a reasonable analysis.
However, query the extent to which there are roles from which the output from a human not pondering and self-reflecting but rather taking AI suggestions and performing more quickly and efficiently is better (more productive) even if it is 80% correct than the alternative, and this is measurable.
I hate AI slop, and I hate the whole compromise strategy and where this will take us, but it's not a totally stupid approach in many cases.
Everyone hates AI unless they’re selling it
My mini loll's refuse to use it, firstly because it makes people lazy, second the effect on the environment and thirdly the money its giving the tech bro's who are in bed with Trump.
Xennial Worrier Princess11 Feb 26 13:45
Everyone hates AI unless they’re selling it
_________________________________________________
I love AI, it's incredibly useful for getting shitt you shouldn't have to deal with off your desk
it's certainly better than the bad old days of employing a bored disinterested secretary who is running down the clock to collect on her suspiciously dead husband's pension
luddities galore pearl clutching on this thread because a big search engine has pulled back the curtain on their smoke and mirrors
If you are routinely getting shit you shouldn't have to deal with on your desk that's a you problem, pal.
Heh. We only need half a sumo going forward. It’s not us it’s you.
What YWTF said at 12.25 is absolutely correct. AI is fine if you're prepared to accept 80% performance. It's just that some jobs need as damn near 100% as possible, or should aim for that even if not required...
it's certainly better than the bad old days of employing a bored disinterested secretary
------------
If they ever manage come up with a version of AI that giggles when you dandle it on your knee while dictating fee notes in stentorian Scots I think we may have found a buyer.
sieteocho11 Feb 26 16:35
If they ever manage come up with a version of AI that giggles when you dandle it on your knee while dictating fee notes in stentorian Scots I think we may have found a buyer.
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first Rof Dragons Den incoming!
Wot Sumo said.
You Luddites need to get with the programme.
Modern-day Captain Swings.
And I'm not referring to the affable jetwashing ex rofer.
AI is well shyte. I had to use copilot once this quarter because someone said.
It banged on about "british" law.
I told it that britain had not existed since the romans left.
It told me to stop being such a pedant fanoir*
*i would totally have respected it if that was true
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