Many employees are using AI to create 'workslop,' Stanford study says
Remember when AI was supposed to make us more productive, not hate each other? ai-pocalypse Workers are getting lazy about using AI to do their jobs for them, and the results are both costly and increasing distrust in the workplace.…
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/26/ai_workslop_productivity/
“People tell chatbots about their medical fears, their relationship problems, their beliefs about God and the afterlife.
Advertising built on that archive creates a potential for manipulating users in ways we don’t have the tools to understand, let alone prevent.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/11664538/anthropic-ai-safety-researcher-mrinank-sharma-quits-concerns/
Just started trying the #Sourcegraph Cody tool, trying to compare it with the #Github Copilot and others, first attractive thing about it is it seems to be (still) opensource.
At first glance it seems to be ecqually invasive, key shortcut is just [TAB] which makes it harder to reject the code injections than accept them; I bet this even alters their own data thinking the autogenerated code block was amazing.
The World Wide Web Consortium is seeking a full-time staff member to lead our Web Security standardization efforts.
This is a unique opportunity to be a key part of the technical team responsible for the design of the next generation World Wide Web and to lead a variety of industry and user groups toward the development of technologies that enhance the security of the Web.
The position is for remote work from anywhere in the world.
#job #jobposting #security
https://www.w3.org/careers/2023-web-security-lead-job-posting/
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