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Often pitched as an efficiency boon, AI has endured some harsh press lately as those promises run up against the hard realities of what the workforce is experiencing.

IT pros are finding the challenges of AI can, at times, outweigh the benefits—and even slow down workflows: Research from the Harvard Business Review in February revealed that, for all the promises of AI efficiency, actual deployment of the technology has led to an increase in task time.

Having to redo work originally created by AI is becoming a problem for IT teams—and looking for solutions is increasingly important for companies and organizations hoping to streamline operations.

Changing priorities. Part of why AI rework has become such a chronic problem is, paradoxically, the rise in automating tasks. As Nullify CEO Shan Kulkarni told IT Brew, removing human oversight of AI work in exchange for trusting the outputs means that staff often must step in to address mistakes that would have been caught earlier on. On the brighter side, it’s an evolution that may eventually smooth itself out.

Rework it, girl!—EH

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