In an online discussion post, Alcorn State University history professor Dr. Jason Gibson posed a question that represented part of his students’ midterm. It was about the…

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    People who use AI to do this at work, were doing it before AI too, just manually. Half-reading emails, restating the obvious, asking off topic questions and demanding meetings without purpose has been a norm in my career field for 20 years. Especially amongst middle managers.

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      The difference is they’re lazy…

      With AI they can “produce” and everyone else that’s lazy doesn’t notice it’s gibberish.

      The only people who realize it, are the ones who were always doing the work.

      Those people were usually already struggling to pick up the slack. But now all the lazy idiots reply with multiple page emails and once you’re dealing with 5-6 of them at once, it’s impossible to keep up.

      It’s a literal gosh gallop attack, you can’t address all the ways everyone’s chatbot is wrong, and every email can I troduce multiple new issues while completely dropping the issue the chatbot insisted was most important.

      So yeah…

      The problem isn’t new, it always existed

      But now the issue is 10x the volume to get cleaned up