AI impersonation: workers are tasked with simulating machinic neutrality while processing human emotion.

« The real question is whether AI’s productivity gains, if it delivers, are shared with workers. And the truth is employers won’t share those gains unless they’re forced to. » www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Augmentation washing - Instead of augmenting human capabilities, it disguises a form of automation that relies on intensified human labor to compensate machine limitations: "the men who remain are there more to help than to be helped.”(Licklider, 1960). www.techpolicy.press/how-augmenta...

« Once an editor starts relying on an AI‑generated score, or a reviewer quietly pastes an auto‑drafted report with minimal edits, it becomes difficult to say where human responsibility ends, and machine suggestion begins. That ambiguity leads directly to a political problem: accountability. »

Every interface is an argument about how you should feel. A red dot with an unread count is making an argument: that reading is something to be counted, that progress is something to be measured, that your relationship to this content is one of obligation. www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obli...

Le LabCMO organise une École d'été sur les méthodes qualitatives en contexte numérique à Montréal du 19 au 22 mai 2026: labcmo.ca/2025/12/16/a...  @labcmo.bsky.social #méthodes #recherche #numérique

« AI is often an excuse for layoffs, not the cause of them. »

Clients use GenAI to generate something approximating their desired outcome and ask illustrators and concept artists to make ‘something like this’, making their job harder and more frustrating. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

And what is efficiency anyway? The most efficient process is nothing happening at all. Created in a second, forgotten in an instant. open.substack.com/pub/kiosk/p/...

Quality assurance design employees are being forced to dig their own graves by training AI programs to do their work. futurism.com/artificial-i...

“One of the reasons people are creating work slop may be the result of too few people, everything feeling urgent and important.” www.ft.com/content/8824...

This is the essence of reverse-centaurism: when a human is expected to act like a machine in order to help the machine do something it can't do (...) The point of the worker – the "human in the loop" – isn't to supervise the AI, it's to take the blame for the AI. pluralistic.net/2025/05/27/r...

People and robots don’t really ‘collaborate’ in any normal sense of the word. In fact, people are actually doing a load of (invisible) work to bring about something that — from a distance — might just look like ‘collaboration’. medium.com/acm-cscw/ope...

The insidious effect of workslop is that it shifts the burden of the work downstream, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work. In other words, it transfers the effort from creator to receiver. hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

🙋🏼‍♀️Yes, I was AI-shamed by a reviewer for being an em dashes enthusiast—Thank you for demonstrating so brilliantly that they are in fact the 'most human punctuation there is'.

It’s not hard to imagine a future where social media becomes an endless stream of AI-generated content interspersed with always-on, AI-generated avatars selling us stuff www.404media.co/chinese-live...

GenAI art has already reached polyester status, and this is just the beginning. culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our...

To read deeply in an AI-saturated world will require not just willpower and dedication, but institutional imagination. It means teaching reading not as information intake, but as a form of resistance against the frictionless logic of automated language. jeppestricker.substack.com/p/the-readin...

Offre de stage postdoctoral dans le cadre du projet de recherche « Imaginaires algorithmiques: les pratiques et représentations des algorithmes dans le monde universitaire». @uqam.ca (Montréal) Date limite pour soumettre sa candidature : 31 juillet 2025 labcmo.ca/2025/06/11/o...

"In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care. In a moment where machines churn out mediocrity, make something yourself. Make it imperfect. Make it rough. Just make it." dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

« The most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating. »

do you have screenshots of troubling interactions with AI? submit them to our call for screenshots to be featured in an online publication and workshop - now extended until 10th december 2024: publicdatalab.org/2024/10/24/t...

MIT author @aramsinn.bsky.social put it aptly: author's works being sold for AI fodder without compensation or permission is a structural problem www.404media.co/mit-press-ai...