Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke is getting a first-hand look at the AI-workplace revolution, and it isn’t a pretty sight.
New reporting by Fortune revealed the disastrous results of Shopify’s all-out scramble to embrace AI nearly a year ago. After telling workers that using AI tools is a “baseline expectation” in the workplace, Lütke is now changing his tune as workers spew out AI-generated emails, memos, and code without double-checking it beforehand.
“We call those ‘slop grenades’ that people toss at each other,” Lütke said in an interview on the Knowledge Project podcast. “That’s definitely a bad thing.”
The CEO further explained that the initiative incentivized workers to “go nuts” on AI, leading to a deluge of AI generated slop.
