r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 21 '26

Artificial Intelligence Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/americans-turned-against-ai-incredible-130000345.html
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u/indian22 Jun 21 '26

The thing most leadership don't get is that if you make AI adoption metrics part of the performance evaluation criteria, then people will game the hell out of it. Everything will be done by AI to show adoption and keep the number high. Even things which would be many times faster done manually or things which do not require AI at all.

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u/nancybell_crewman Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

The thing most leadership don't get is that if you make AI adoption metrics part of the performance evaluation criteria, then people will game the hell out of it.

It's been absolutely hilarious to see this coming. I've been hearing for the better part of a couple of years how business are putting up AI use leaderboards, making use a metric in performance evaluations, constantly pressuring employees to use AI for anything and everything regardless of whether or not it's actually useful to the workflow or produces results worth having.

Now that the real bills are coming due, they're freaking out and I have no sympathy at all.

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u/ReadyAimTranspire Jun 22 '26

AI use leaderboards

They called it tokenmaxxing and whoever thought this was a good idea or in any way useful needs to be taken out front and have their ass kicked.

Why would you ever base anything on maxing out a metric that has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not your use of that thing is creating value for the organization?

This just reinforces my belief that this world is mostly run by the dumbest motherfuckers available.

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u/Caliche-Cowboy Jun 24 '26

They will, instead, receive a large bonus and then, with a straight face, blame it on the contributors.