Shopify CEO says employees’ AI ‘slop grenades’ are making more work for everyone else

The tech leaders who once hailed AI use as the key to unlocking every employee’s full potential are now changing their tune. Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke said during an interview on "The Knowledge Project" podcast, released on Tuesday. His take: AI helps employees produce more material, more quickly — without taking responsibility for whether it is useful or correct. "We call those 'slop grenades' that people toss at each other," he said. "And that's definitely a bad thing." the tools make it easy to pass along work that has not been properly evaluated. He offered an example: Someone might send...