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Bot Sitting Consumes Half of AI Time Savings at 6.4 Hours Weekly
Cognitive Revolution
Babysitting the Machine: Glean's Rebecca Hinds on the Hidden Human Labor of AI at Work
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"Bot sitting is all the unglamorous, untracked labor required to make AI useful, feeding it context, debugging its outputs, and cleaning up its messes, which the report finds consumes 6.4 hours per week, or roughly half of all the time that AI supposedly saves."
The report introduces the term 'bot sitting' to describe the exhausting manual work of feeding context to AI tools, debugging outputs, and cleaning up mistakes. This hidden labor costs workers roughly half their AI productivity gains and is a major driver of burnout and disengagement, particularly when organizations fail to provide integrated AI systems with proper context.
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- Babysitting the Machine: Glean's Rebecca Hinds on the Hidden Human Labor of AI at Work
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