Corporate slop
One of the biggest complaints about AI is the level of ‘slop’ that it produces, i.e. low quality media and writing that it outputs from the prompts that it’s given.
The technology will improve over time (the end of 2026 is currently being touted as the date for high-quality AI) and the amount of ‘slop’ it produces will lessen.
However, organisations that are waiting for AI to improve productivity can achieve their goals right now by ridding themselves of the corporate slop that they have allowed to take root.
Corporate slop has been bogging employees down for years. Needless processes, complicated forms, behaviours that have never been dealt with, endless emails about nothing in particular, pet projects that add no value to the organisation, meetings that are 10-15 minutes longer than they need to be and time wasted reacting to the latest whim.
These are all examples of activities and actions that prevent people from doing work to increase outputs and consequently, results.
Rather than waiting for technology to solve productivity problems, leaders can create an exciting pathway instead by removing the corporate slop that will allow employees to embrace the gains that AI can - eventually - provide.
