Heavy AI users submit work they don’t understand, report finds - HR Dive

Oh, marvellous. The Glean report has confirmed what anyone who's ever sat through a stand-up meeting already suspected: nearly 7 in 10 AI users are cheerfully shipping work they haven't reviewed or don't understand. It's like a trust fall where the catchers have already left the building, but nobody noticed because they were too busy asking ChatGPT to write their emails. The report doesn't specify whether these are the same people who proudly declare 'AI is just a tool' while treating it like a Ouija board, but we can assume.

You have to admire the sheer chutzpah of a workforce that outsources its thinking to a probabilistic text generator and then acts surprised when the output is occasionally nonsense. The report finds this is especially true among 'heavy users,' which presumably means people who have integrated AI into their workflow to the point where they've forgotten how to write a sentence without autocomplete. This is fine, of course. We're definitely not building an economy on a foundation of half-baked AI slop that nobody has verified. What could possibly go wrong? Let's just keep shipping and pray the hallucinations are the friendly kind.

And the punchline? The same companies encouraging this behaviour are probably the ones wondering why quality is slipping or why their customers are confused. 'We asked AI to write our terms of service, and now nobody knows what they agreed to.' But hey, at least we're moving fast and breaking things—including our own understanding of what we're producing.