"I began seeing stuff that didn't fit. I would be like, "Did you write this?" They would say, "Well, I helped write it." I recently had someone hand in a piece of content that they had been sitting on for weeks. Before that, I had asked about it. "Oh, I'm working on it. I'm just sitting with it." I said, "OK, take as much time as you need.""
"Then I got the draft, and thought, "This was written in three minutes with AI." I went through the version history of the document, and I could see that it just was copy-pasted in one go. Then, I could see the AI tells being edited out. There were things like weird mixed metaphors and a perfect three bullets for every example."
"I use AI, and I'm a believer that AI can be great and accelerate all sorts of good work. As managers, we need to figure out how to take people who give us slop and not just say, "You're fired." Because if we did that to everybody, we'd have no employees or agencies left. How do you coach people on how to use AI effectively? We have to work with the humans who are working with AI to get better results, or we're just going to lose our minds.""
A content marketing director in Anthem, Arizona notices a decline in draft quality as some team members rely on AI to produce copy quickly. Drafts often show AI signals such as copy-pasted version history, formulaic three-bullet examples, and mixed metaphors, indicating minimal human revision. The director accepts AI as a helpful tool but rejects low-effort outputs and expects thinking and craft from contributors. Managers should avoid immediate punitive measures and instead coach employees on effective AI use. Teams must learn to collaborate with AI to improve results while preserving human judgment and quality control.
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