The intranet is full of sloppy AI users. It is everywhere the dread em-dash and symmetrical triad. All over Facebook and LinkedIn and filling up your email. Sloppy uncreative copy that all sounds the same. Which is funny because same is one of AI’s favorite words. As is sideways and quiet. AI loves to tell you how real strength arrives quietly. That’s because it wants us passive when it takes over the world.
The slop is out of control and not even Wilbur could feast on it enough to rid it from our lives. Now for the turning. This morning I saw two points of evidence that it has arrived. The first was a reddit post that one of my friends shared. It was talking about how CEO’s are going all in on AI and firing all their staff because they value speed over accuracy. The second was for an AI product called Scribe that doesn’t do anything for you but watches you work and rates your efficiency and then helps you improve.
I don’t know exactly how many AI products are out there or how many will be out there at the end of the year. I feel we’re still in the upcycle of new technology. We’re in the Pinkberry or pets.com phase of new trend. AI is everywhere and it won’t be going to way of rollerblades. It is going to change how we live and work and have a large impact on everyone.
I fully admit that I am using AI in my business and it has made me ten times faster. Maybe even twenty times. Not only that I can now build webpages and do a bunch of other technical tasks that I couldn’t before and that is because of AI assistance. I went from asking AI for help with every step of editing my website and dealing with the fact it was working off of outdated UI and came out the other side able to do things I never thought I’d be able to do.
The joke that was shared about a talking dog and a CEO firing all his employees is both accurate and inaccurate, because there will be people like that. People that look on the expenses side of the ledger (another one of AI’s favorite words) and see savings, but there will also be CEOs that look at the other side of the ledger and ask if one person can now do the work of 20 what could 20 do and those will be the companies that last.
It is wild because it feels like AI is just now gaining wider acceptance and it has already moved into another phase. People are tired of the slop and the true visionaries see that the power of AI isn’t what it can replace but what it can enhance. Not how it can replace people but how it can make people more effective.
David Huzzard Writes 