--- title: "CEO Says He’ll Fire Any Employee Who Sends Him More AI Slop" description: "One business executive has gotten so sick of AI slop that they threatened to axe the next worker who sent an email with ChatGPT." date: "2026-07-01" modified: "2026-07-01" authors: - name: "Joe Wilkins" job_title: "Correspondent" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jwilkins" url: "https://futurism.com/future-society/ceo-fire-employee-email-chatpgt-ai-slop" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "Ethics" - "Future Society" --- # CEO Says He’ll Fire Any Employee Who Sends Him More AI Slop ![A man wearing glasses and a gray blazer is sitting at a white table, pointing to his left with a serious expression. Across from him, a woman with blonde hair and red-painted nails has her hands clasped together near her face. A yellow and red halftone circle graphic is overlaid on the left side of the image.]() *Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock* We've been hearing a lot lately about bosses who have [embraced AI so much that they've become loose cannons]() — outsourcing decisions to chatbots, making erratic strategy pivots based on their feedback, and even asking them who to fire. At the same time, other company leaders are turning against the tech. Writing [for *Inc*](), professional AI consultant and tech commentator Joe Procopio wrote that some corporate executives are getting sick of AI slop. He explains that he's observed as a growing number of weary companies impose bans on AI use, for reasons ranging from [digital security]() to [cost-savings](). Others are just sick of all the [mind-numbing workslop](). As Procopio writes, one anonymous CEO got so fed up with the amount of [AI-generated garbage]() flooding their inbox that they threatened to "fire the next person" who blasted them with an unedited email straight from ChatGPT. Separately, Procopio observed that he caught wind of another tech CEO implementing a complete ban on AI across his entire company, the first case he'd ever heard of. Those disclosures come as companies using AI [face growing costs]() from the tech's providers, which are themselves running up against critical [data center](), [energy]() and [labor bottlenecks](). Sure, it'd be one thing if AI was worth the cost. But broadly speaking, that's not what [companies are finding]() — leading to a lose-lose situation for execs: not only is AI losing you money, but it's stuffing your inbox full of low-effort slop as well. **More on AI slop:** *[AI Companies Are Learning an Ironic Lesson as the People They Pay to Improve Their Chatbots Are Just Feeding AI Slop Into Them]()* ## Author At Futurism, I focus on the intersection of technology and power — examining the economics, history, and politics behind today’s dystopian headlines. As a writer, I’m interested in topics ranging from AI’s impact on labor to startups nobody asked for. My prior work includes bylines in Jacobin, Verso, and Blue Labyrinths. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Forbes, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, Time, The Nation, Mother Jones, The Verge, and Wired. I grew up in Michigan, attending Central Michigan University as well as Ball State University, where I earned a master of music. I now live in Brooklyn with my girlfriend and our cat Ziti. On weekends, you can find me hunched over a cold pint arguing geopolitics with the other transplants. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()