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Shopify CEO Warns AI Output Quality Crisis Spawns Cleanup Jobs

Tobi Lütke's framing of unreviewed AI content as "slop grenades" identifies a real operational problem: companies using generative AI as a speed lever without quality gates are offloading oversight costs onto junior staff and external contractors. The surge in freelance cleanup work shows that AI adoption is creating a new tier of low-value labor—prompt refinement, fact-checking, tone correction—rather than eliminating work. This inverts the efficiency narrative most AI vendors sell. For brands, it exposes the true all-in cost of AI deployment. The promised 10x productivity gains require expensive human triage, making the ROI calculation messier than the hype suggests.