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Generative AI misuse enables fake workplace productivity and creates organizational risks

This article outlines how unregulated generative AI use in workplaces allows untrained employees to produce superficially competent but often flawed work, decoupling output quality from actual worker expertise, wasting organizational resources, eroding pipelines for future experts, and creating avoidable operational and client-facing risks. Citing multiple recent peer-reviewed studies, the author recommends limiting AI to low-stakes, verifiable tasks with consistent human oversight to mitigate these negative outcomes.