Beware coworkers who produce AI-generated ‘workslop’
In Brief Posted: 12:36 PM PDT · September 27, 2025 Image Credits:FS-Stock (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Anthony Ha Beware coworkers who produce AI-generated ‘workslop’ Researchers at consulting firm BetterUp Labs, in collaboration with Stanford Social Media Lab, have coined a new term to describe low-quality, AI-generated work: “workslop.” As defined in an article published this week in the Harvard Business Review, workslop is “AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.” BetterUp Labs researchers suggest that workslop could be one explanation for the 95% of organizations that have tried AI but report seeing zero return on that investment. Workslop, they write, can be…
