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Claudine Bonneau

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Professor, ESG UQAM, Montreal Algorithmic resistance at work, new ways of working, invisible work. Français/English Ongoing research project: https://workaround.uqam.ca/en/home/

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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 15d

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...

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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 23d

🙋🏼‍♀️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'.

The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · Aug 20

I wrote about the em dash

Stop AI-Shaming Our Precious, Kindly Em Dashes—Please

Human writers have always used the em dash. In fact, it’s the most human punctuation mark there is.

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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · Aug 11

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...

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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · Jun 25

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.

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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · Jun 16

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

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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...

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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · May 28

"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...

Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · Apr 14

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

Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Apr 13

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...

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

Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · Nov 21

At least AI hasn’t misidentified him as a blueberry muffin 😄

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Public Data Lab @publicdatalab.bsky.social · Nov 19

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...

text reads: "troubling AI - call for screenshots"

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · Nov 19

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...

“I told them that the problem with using our work to train LLMs isn't that individual authors deserve to be compensated, or given due credit, for their work being churned through the AI grinder,” Sinnreich said. “Rather, it's a structural problem in which the labor of working scholars en masse is being used to feed the profits of insatiably greedy tech elites, effecting a massive upwards transfer of wealth while simultaneously undermining the role of expertise and the value of individual perspective in the production of knowledge, which has widespread civic and cultural consequences.”

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