Claudine Bonneau

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.

Quality assurance design employees are being forced to dig their own graves by training AI programs to do their work.
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How employers can prevent AI ‘work slop’ Poorly generated content underlines need for clear policies and increased monitoring of technology

“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...

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…

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...

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...

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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🙋🏼‍♀️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'.

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.

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 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...

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

The Reading Crisis We're Not Talking About Writing gets the spotlight, but generative AI is reshaping how we read too.

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 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...

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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"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. »

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

text reads: "troubling AI - call for screenshots"

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...

“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.”

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...