AI is genuinely boosting corporate productivity. It’s also giving a new breed of executive the perfect cover to look busy and send kilometre-long emails that contain absolutely nothing — especially when they’re on the golf course doing precisely that.
I’d bet you’ve already received one. A corporate email so obviously GPT-generated you don’t even need to run it through a detector. The manager who sent it contributed exactly one cognitive act: Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, Send.
You know the template. They open with something vague like “I hope this email finds you well”, pivot to a masterpiece of corporate poetry along the lines of “in light of the insights emerging from our recent cross-functional synergy alignment…”, and then — four paragraphs, 2,000 characters, three bullet-point lists, and four name-drops later — you discover the actual message was: “let’s reschedule the call.”
LinkedIn, meanwhile, has become my personal favourite social experiment. People who were posting “happy Monday ☕️” six months ago are now publishing relentless think-pieces on resilience, organisational transformation, and leadership philosophy that Harvard Business Review would frankly find embarrassing.
The Real Problem
The problem isn’t ChatGPT. The problem is the dimwits who have figured out — badly, catastrophically badly — that if you make a stochastic parrot vomit 900 words on a regular schedule, you can successfully disguise the fact that you have no clear position on anything, no original thought in your head, and quite possibly no self-esteem either. They’re as easy to spot as a Pulcinella at a haute couture runway show.
So please — stop insulting everyone’s intelligence by copy-pasting whatever slop an LLM serves up without at least reading it back to make sure it still contains your voice, your thinking, and yes, even your flaws.
Do you agree? Tell me in the comments. In your own words, if you’re still capable of it.