{"slug": "do-they-know-we-can-tell-it-s-ai-slop", "title": "Do they know we can tell it's AI slop?", "summary": "A chief technology officer is struggling with how to tell the entrepreneurs he works for that their use of AI-generated content in business communications is damaging their credibility with sophisticated audiences. The CTO cited three recent examples where AI-generated emails and documents led to lost respect from a fired SEO firm, a job candidate, and during a financial procedure review. The dilemma highlights a growing workplace tension between the efficiency of AI tools and the risk of appearing inauthentic to key partners and stakeholders.", "body_md": "What do I do when the entrepreneurs I work for send out AI slop in their communications?\n\nI work for a great group of entrepreneurs as CTO/fCFO. They are all sales guys. In my childhood and professional career, I have seen so many toxic partnerships. I don’t waste any time on those anymore and I genuinely respect the guys I work for.\n\nSo, to the main question, what do I do when it’s blatant that they are just copying AI slop from Grok or chatGPT? I notice it all the time. But I genuinely respect these guys (unlike my son’s inadequate math teacher who pastes AI slop into emails to me…). It’s an 80/20 issue. For a majority of their audience, they make a positive and knowledgeable impression. But for the rest of us, it’s it takes them down a notch. I don’t want them embarrassing themselves in front of our bankers/financers/corporate partners.\n\nThree recent examples: (1) Critique of a new SEO site pre-launch. We ended up firing the firm, but they lost all respect once the email was sent. (2) interviewing a new controller, so apparent when they pulled out canned questions from an LLM. (3) a proposed job costing procedure for a new entity/line of business. A 10 page document like I was used to seeing when I worked at public companies. Disconnected from the current state of the business.\n\nI love these guys. Is it possible to send a message about how they are viewed without offending?\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48303252](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48303252)\n\nPoints: 2\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/do-they-know-we-can-tell-it-s-ai-slop", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48303252", "published_at": "2026-05-28 01:38:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-28 01:56:42.066656+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "large-language-models", "ai-ethics", "ai-products", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Grok", "ChatGPT", "Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/do-they-know-we-can-tell-it-s-ai-slop", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/do-they-know-we-can-tell-it-s-ai-slop.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/do-they-know-we-can-tell-it-s-ai-slop.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/do-they-know-we-can-tell-it-s-ai-slop.jsonld"}}