Claudine Bonneau
@clo-bonneau.bsky.social
Professor, ESG UQAM, Montreal
Algorithmic resistance at work, new ways of working, invisible work.
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Ongoing research project: https://workaround.uqam.ca/en/home/
Algorithmic resistance at work, new ways of working, invisible work.
Français/English
Ongoing research project: https://workaround.uqam.ca/en/home/
And what is efficiency anyway? The most efficient process is nothing happening at all. Created in a second, forgotten in an instant.
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When in Rome.
The illusion of infinite efficiency.
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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/...
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.
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EA's Attempt to Use AI for Game Development Backfiring Horribly
Staffers at major video game developer Electronic Arts told Business Insider, their employer's attempts to use AI are backfiring.
futurism.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Quality assurance design employees are being forced to dig their own graves by training AI programs to do their work.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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...
How employers can prevent AI ‘work slop’
Poorly generated content underlines need for clear policies and increased monitoring of technology
www.ft.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“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...
Pluralistic: AI turns Amazon coders into Amazon warehouse workers (27 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
October 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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...
Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration
It is now routine to talk about human-AI collaboration and the possibility of AI systems acting as co-workers or partners for us. It’s…
medium.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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.
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AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...
hbr.org
September 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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...
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'.
September 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
🙋🏼♀️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...
Chinese Livestreaming 'Virtual Human' Salespeople Are Outselling Their Human Counterparts
Built using AI technology from Baidu and DeepSeek, these virtual livestreamers sell everything from wet wipes to printers and work 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
www.404media.co
August 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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...
GenAI is Our Polyester
The best way to understand generative AI art and aesthetics is to consider how previous "synthetics" lost value in the long-run
For the first half of the 20th century, white-collar workers wore busin...
culture.ghost.io
August 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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...
The Reading Crisis We're Not Talking About
Writing gets the spotlight, but generative AI is reshaping how we read too.
jeppestricker.substack.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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...
Date limite pour soumettre sa candidature : 31 juillet 2025
labcmo.ca/2025/06/11/o...
Offre de stage postdoctoral sur les imaginaires algorithmiques
Nous sommes à la recherche d’un ou une candidate pour réaliser un stage postdoctoral dans le cadre du projet de recherche « Imaginaires algorithmiques: les pratiques et représentations des algorithmes...
labcmo.ca
June 16, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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...
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...
May 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"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. »
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
« The most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating. »
Reposted by Claudine Bonneau
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...
November 19, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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...
Reposted by Claudine Bonneau
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...
November 19, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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...