Your Boss Used ChatGPT to Congratulate You: Why Automated Employee Appreciation Creates a New Species of Workplace Loneliness
When 63% of employees can smell AI-generated praise from their managers, we’ve automated away the last thing that made work bearable: the brief moment of being genuinely seen. PROLOGUE There’s a particular species of American professional who has learned to identify AI-generated text the way a sommelier identifies corked wine—not through analysis, but through an…