“We’re driving the truck and building it at the same time, and that’s a problem.”<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
By Joe Wilkins<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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\n\n\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\n\n\n As Reuters<\/em> 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<\/em> reports<\/a>, after executive vice president Ryan Roslansky groused about the rise of low-quality workslop on his public-facing LinkedIn account.<\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n As CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management Johnny Taylor Jr told the Guardian<\/em>, 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\n\n\n \u201cIf we could all rewind\u2026 we would have introduced [this] in a more thoughtful, slow way,\u201d Taylor continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/enterprise-ai-spending-generate-slop-cutting-back.jpg?quality=85&w=1152\")