By skyforbes 
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You open your laptop to a wall of tasks.
Meetings. Emails. Decks. Content. Strategy.
You tell yourself, “I’ll just ask ChatGPT to help and get ahead today.”
An hour later, you have 6 new drafts, 20 open tabs… and the same sinking feeling: you’ve produced more stuff, but not more progress.
It’s not that you’re lazy. It’s because your AI system is outdated.
We’re at a strange moment: studies show that generative AI can boost output and quality, especially for knowledge work, but the gains are uneven and depend heavily on how people use it.
At the same time, a new problem is spreading through offices: “workslop” — AI-generated content that looks polished but is shallow, wrong, or useless. Research teams affiliated with Stanford and BetterUp, writing in outlets such as Harvard Business Review and major news outlets, show how this kind of fake-quality work wastes time, erodes trust, and can even make AI investments look like failures.
Your edge is no longer what you know. It’s how you partner with AI to use…