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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
alex@dair-community.social ("Alex Hanna") wrote:

“AI” IS impacting labor, but not in the ways you think. In some cases, people generating “workslop” are making their colleagues’ jobs more difficult.

This is a snippet of my video Myths of AI and Productivity, based on work we’re doing at @DAIR with The Luddite Lab. We dispel 5 common myths around AI and labor by looking at what studies actually say about AI’s impact on labor.

Full video: https://youtu.be/3BO0iy91lfU

There are three stacked screenshots from a video of Alex, a brown trans woman, sitting on a pink chair and speaking into the camera while holding a small microphone. She has short black curly hair and is wearing a blue long-sleeved shirt and light tan pants. Behind her is a cat-shaped pillow with an image of a tuxedo cat on it, and behind her chair are rows of books on a light blue wall. Underneath are captions from the video that say: “But generative AI can also reduce wages in other ways, namely by punishing workers who use the tools and pass on ‘workslop’ to their colleagues.”, “...researchers report that receiving generative AI text or images from colleagues results in lower perceptions of the competence of their colleagues.” and “Getting slop from your colleague makes you think worse of them. And if those workers are women or older, or people of color, then it confirms their co-workers’ biases against them.”