AI-loving boss insists that employee uses Chat-GPT to assemble company's monthly report, employee complies and submits absolute gibberish to upper management: 'The result was entirely and completely useless'

It comes as no surprise that far too many employers out there are charmed by the so-called efficiency of AI in the workplace.

What's especially humorous about this concept is that these are the same managers who tend to be slow to embrace change. They didn't like the concept of fully remote work, and they don't enjoy more contemporary ideas like the four-day work week. However, when it comes to using AI and Chat-GPT in particular, some bosses have rushed too quickly to embrace these tools simply because they are seemingly cost-efficient.

Once again, what these employers are sacrificing is accuracy. We've seen this kind of sacrifice manifest itself in the workplace time and time again. Whether it's consolidating positions to save costs or eliminating certain elements of a due diligence process to maximize speed, a human attention to detail tends to be on the chopping block over and over again.

That's exactly what happened in this workplace environment, in which this author was encouraged to use Chat-GPT over their own tried and true methods of analysis for an upcoming monthly report. Despite numerous attempts on the part of the author to explain why this was not a good idea, the boss refused to budge. So the employee complied, albeit maliciously…

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