Another study exploring one of its most hyped up applications, AI coding assistants, showed that programmers actually became slower when they depended on the AI tools. The team calls this low quality work “workslop,” in a play on “AI slop,” the slang used for describing the shoddy AI text and imagery that pollute social media. They define “workslop” as AI-generated work that “masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.”Sure, some employees can use AI to produce polished work. AI content, however, “uses machines to offload cognitive work to another human being,” Niederhoffer and her team argue. More on AI: If You’re Looking for a Job Right Now, AI Is Extremely Bad News