What is workslop and how it affects trust and productivity

Found on theregister.com

The intro "Remember when AI was supposed to make us more productive, not hate each other?" gives the questions around the term workslop the perfect framing:

AI-generated garbage, dubbed "workslop"

is, essentially, when

staffers are sending around AI-generated material that may look impressive, but contains very little in the way of actionable facts and figures, which someone else then needs to sort out and turn into something useful.

The current (as of 2025!) outcomes of the referenced ongoing Stanford study are summarized as follows:

Workslop is the machine-learning equivalent of spam, and the study claims that the amount of work involved in sorting out the wheat from the chaff, or facts from hallucinations, in such content, costs around $186 per employee per month in lost productivity, a few bucks less than a ChatGPT Pro account.