If managers use AI to assign tasks and write performance reviews, are they really managing?

I’ve been noticing a lot of comments online from employees saying their managers are using AI to assign tasks, write performance reviews, and send company announcements. The common denominator is that many of these managers apparently don’t even bother editing the output. You can clearly tell it was produced by AI: bolded text everywhere, endless bullet-point lists, “Why it matters” sections, “It’s not X, it’s Y,” em dashes, and all the usual fingerprints. I’m curious whether other people have had the same experience at work. Personally, I think it’s perfectly fine for a manager to use AI to polish an email, organize their thoughts, or help them work more efficiently. But when they lazily copy and paste whatever the AI gives them, without meaningfully reviewing or rewriting it, I start wondering: are they still managing, or is the AI managing through them? AI slop has been everywhere for the past two years, so I think this particular workplace version deserves its own term. I’ve been thinking of calling it ghostbossing: when a manager outsources tasks, feedback, or judgment to AI while still presenting the result under their own authority. But I’m open to better names if anyone has one, lol. I’d really like hearing the most unbelievable examples of this behaviour.