So Money with Farnoosh Torabi · Wednesday, September 16, 2026
The conversation touched on 'work slop,' defined as the extra time spent cleaning up outputs from AI tools like ChatGPT when used without clear mission or clarity. Mike Allen noted research indicating this cleanup can take up to two hours per instance.
“Yeah, that, you call it or the researchers have called it work slop, you know, like if you go to ChatGPT without a mission, without clarity, you're going to be spending more time cleaning up the mess.”
“We found in our research for simplify, that it can take two hours for someone to deal with a slop. They've all of a sudden gotten this big deck or this big dashboard or this big proposal or this big pitch. And all of a sudden, they have to deal with it.”