Gen Z workers are so fearful AI will take their job they’re intentionally sabotaging their company’s AI rollout. : futurology

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 131 points 6 days ago (3 children)

People keep spreading this...

Because they're not smart enough to realize it's pro-AI propaganda put out by AI companies...

A new report published Tuesday from enterprise AI agent firm Writer and research firm Workplace Intelligence finds a significant share of employees are actively trying to sabotage their company’s AI rollout. The report—a survey of 2,400 knowledge workers across the U.S., the U.K., and Europe, including 1,200 C-suite executives—found 29% of employees admit to sabotaging their company’s AI strategy. That number jumps to 44% among Gen Z workers

They need an excuse for why it's not working, so they're blaming jr workers, knowing ceos will come to the conclusion "just fire more people".

Even the way they're phrasing this, makes it sound like the only reason an employee doesn't like AI, is they're a "hater" scared of losing their job.

Do people legitimately not understand any of this? It seems incredibly obvious but this is like the 20th article I've and I don't why people keep spreading this shit

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 25 points 6 days ago

Yes, this tendency is really dangerous in my opinion.

[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It's not about looking for a scapegoat yet. Its about CEOs actually not understanding why it's not working.

I have such a situation at my work. All the top management know ai only at a level where it seems everything is possible. It's a beautiful level, I remember being at that level, so nice. For a while I tried to explain where the limits are, but I was dismissed as a naysayer every time. So I adapted and decided to kind of get back on that train officially, but route most of my work to where it makes sense.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Its about CEOs actually not understanding why it’s not working.

Half the respondents are from the c-suite...

And the question asked wasn't "are you doing this" it's "do you believe people are doing this".

I literally quoted it because I knew people still wouldn't read the source, but here we are.

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 1 points 5 days ago

I didn't read the article and am grateful for the context :D <3

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

currently going through this at my small company. the owners seem to think it's great - one of them has been playing around with it creating various tools for the past couple years. to be fair, the last thing he's been working on has actually been rather impressive. the other guy only just started using it and I think he's in the honeymoon phase. still, it's a bit worrying.

I've asked when I can get access to the same tools, and it hasn't been rolled out to the teams yet. but from what I've seen, the actual use cases for us (consolidating standards documents, pulling out information from standards documents, creating spec sheets and requirements documents etc) it is not really worth it, since everything has to be validated anyways

from my perspective of not being able to use the same tools myself, it still seems like just a search engine to me. a better ctrl+f. which isn't to say it's a bad tool, though definitely an inefficient one.

[–] mineralfellow@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I would be curious how they phrased the questionnaire and how it is being interpreted. Surely they didn't have a question, "Are you trying to sabotage AI?" Must have been something more benign that was modified in meaning by the marketers.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I would be curious

Really?

Most people would have then follow the bread rumbs and checked?

Why did you care enough to type that out, when clicking two links to find the answer was so easy and you could have found out immediately?

[–] mineralfellow@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

When I click the link, I see one sentence, a video that doesn't load, an ad, and a demand to subscribe.

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Probably something like "Have you used AI tools to help develop efficiency at your job?"

And people say no, because they have no use for it, so it gets interperated as "sabotage".

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 55 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Boomer and Gen X middle-managers watching their AI rollouts fail because the technology's efficiency and benefits have been vastly oversold.

"Clearly, the Zoomers are sabotaging us."

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 21 hours ago

We got told to add pronunciation for our names and that M$' AI could help us work one out

Following the link and entering the exact prompt they suggested caused the LLM to reset and do nothing

Asking again it gave me my exact name back again as the pronunciation

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

We have a new AI team at work to find ways we can use AI for our work.

I cannot think of a single thing for what we do (manage data center hardware). We don't confure it in any meaninful way that might maybe be useful.

Like we have these once a month logs we process, maybe that, but I already wrote and distributed an app (like ten years ago) that does that because its simple data processing X to Y. That already takes 5 minutes to do now.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

5 minutes to analyse a month of logs?

Either that’s the most efficient log parser I’ve ever seen or you don’t log very much 😅

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Its very specific data that its looking for, transmit and recieves for EAS, and where it came from.

[–] Arcka@midwest.social 3 points 5 days ago

If you're just looking for something specific, even command line tools can be hundreds of times faster than general data processing applications.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

hyper-personalize what stock can go into DR or off bleeding edge based on known EOL dates and maintenance cycles from OEMs?.

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 2 points 5 days ago

EOL dates? LOL, we have servers that are like 15 years old now.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 6 days ago

pft. I pushed middle management to millenials. Even young boomers are retired now.

[–] Stefan_S_from_H@piefed.zip 71 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Are they really sabotaging it, or is it just not working as promised?

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

Why not both?

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

Shhh, you're gonna ruin the propaganda!

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago

Depending on the application and the way it is used, AI absolutely works as promised.

But those instances are few and far between and the general hype and expectations are far and above yield.

As someone who uses AI daily to produce faster and better, I absolutely hope the bubble pops and shit collapses.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Was AI an overhyped application of statistics and not the magical construct to all of us becoming billionaires overnight?

Nah, people must be sabotaging it!

[–] unbanshee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

¿Por qué no los dos?

[–] iltoroargento@startrek.website 3 points 5 days ago

I mean, tbh, I'm doing everything I can to bring attention to its shortcomings at my workplace. I think there are a lot of us.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 58 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"The AI output is always so shitty... the workers must be the problem, they're clearly sabotaging our obviously perfect way to make perfect profits!"

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The problem is that LLM's sometimes gets the right answer and then you are like Wow this is the best! And the next minute you are thinking It must be me not giving enough context? Let me try a different model. which then also fails.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 9 points 6 days ago

Intermittent reinforcement conditioning is literally the most powerful there is.

People who are not aware of their biases are mastered by them.

Stay curious folks!

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 23 points 6 days ago

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'm impressed they wrote that whole article without going into the story about luddites. Or maybe I think about luddites too much..

Ah, the report as linked to is from "writer.com" aka Writer Inc. a "generative artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco". To nobody's surprise there's a lot of em-dashes in it.

The biggest crime is perhaps that the whole PDF report is just pictures. You can't highlight any text or search in it.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

AI is undependable at best and kills people at worst. It's a horrible product.

OpenAI is under investigation after its chatbot, ChatGPT, allegedly helped plan a mass shooting last year at Florida State University that killed 2 people

[–] Lawnman23@piefed.social 26 points 6 days ago

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 23 points 6 days ago

Good for Gen Z.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 16 points 6 days ago

Sabatoging AI strategy = getting things done the way that works instead of the top down directive that doesn't

A tale as old as time

[–] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

Nobody sabotaging anything that manages to shit itself half a step into any task.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

Bullshit

[–] Lugh@futurology.today 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is entirely expected and a foreshadowing of a world to come. Prediction? When robo-taxis are everywhere they'll be a target, too. Driving jobs are one of the last refuges in our economy to earn money when people are out of other options.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 21 hours ago

30% of the workforce world be looking for new jobs if/when self driving becomes reliable enough to run taxis, buses, trucks

I see a future where we have to teach emergency services drivers the basics of driving

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago

Good.

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 10 points 6 days ago

The research firm sounds really scientific and reliable on their website!

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 8 points 6 days ago

[–] 0ndead 7 points 6 days ago

It’s not about fear, Fortune

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago

Why’s there a picture from the 70s though?

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