"I began to worry about a world where, in addition to my job job, I have the work of making the emotion robot think that I’m sufficiently cheerful" #emotionAI #surveillance www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

The Rise of Emotional Surveillance

Companies are monitoring workers not just for productivity but for agreeability.

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When the cited source exists but doesn’t support the claim being made: let’s share examples of LLM-generated misaligned citations

Jill Walker Rettberg@jilltxt.bsky.social · 4w ago

I wrote this up as a blog post so I can easily find it again in the future. If you see any examples of this phenomenon I'd love it if you could share them in the comments! jilltxt.net/misaligned-c...

Timmermans & Tavory (2026) on AI and qualitative analysis: LLMs excel at theme construction, but themes become interesting when they are developed into new arguments that move an ongoing conversation. AI will likely create theoretically irrelevant, boring work. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

« Google AI Overview contained claims that appeared in none of the underlying search results. The AI did not synthesise what the sources said. It created something the sources never stated » www.linkedin.com/pulse/google...

Google's AI Overview Is a Publisher. A German Court Just Said So.

Na Liu KEY TAKEAWAY On 28 May 2026, the Munich Regional Court (Landgericht München I) granted a preliminary injunction against Google, ruling that AI-generated search summaries — "AI Overviews" or "Üb...

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"A genre glitch is a characteristic of LLM-assisted writing where the text suddenly switches genre, typically inserting a short promotional phrase full of sensory details into an informational text." I'm sure there are plenty of examples of genre glitch in internal organizational documents as well!

Jill Walker Rettberg@jilltxt.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Genre glitching: a new sign of AI-assisted writing? Thanks to @doremus-schafer.bsky.social and @srettberg.bsky.social who shared the two examples of this that I discuss in today's blog post. Please please please send me any other examples you see of this! jilltxt.net/genre-glitch...

"Every apparent gain in speed is a shift of burden downstream. Someone still has to reread, compare, test, contextualize, rewrite. And if no one takes on that work, the cost does not disappear. It reappears later in the form of errors, urgent fixes, loss of trust, and eventually litigation."

Arthur Charpentier@freakonometrics.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"If No One Pays for Proof, Everyone Will Pay for the Loss" freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/89367 (back on "AI still doesn’t work very well in business, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming" www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/a...)

Grammarly's AI-fueled edits -- using my name - suggested making up sources and writing vague insinuations. In my latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link) I describe Grammarly's terrible edits in my name -- and call for a federal right of publicity. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...

Opinion | Me, Myself and My A.I. Sloppelgänger

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Grammarly’s « expert review » feature: a deliberate choice to monetize the identities of real people without involving them www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it

The company tells Platformer it will let experts opt out of the controversial feature — but how different is it than what every other AI company is doing?

platformer.news

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

Data Workers’ Inquiry@dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨NEW INQUIRY! - Behind the Face of AI🚨 In this short comic, two data workers describe their work impersonating an “AI” chatbot for a major social media platform. Sleepless nights, penalties for sounding “too human,” and emotional drain are just a few of the job hazards. ➡️ data-workers.org/france

« 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...

The bogus four-day workweek that AI supposedly ‘frees up’

Business leaders tout AI as a path to shorter weeks and better balance. But without power, workers are unlikely to share the gains

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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...

How Augmentation-Washing Hides Labor Automation

Sarah E. Fox and Samantha Shorey discuss how corporate “cobots” reduce control and intensify demands—and what policy can do to protect worker agency.

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« 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. »

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7mo ago

'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3

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...

Phantom Obligation

Why RSS readers look like email clients, and what that's doing to us.

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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. »

Anil Dash@anildash.com · 8mo ago

Since ChatGPT came out in late 2022, over *half a million* tech workers have been laid off. That fact, and their voices, aren't really shaping the conversation about AI, and what "AI" really means in culture. So I started to get into it: www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/5...

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...

Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did.

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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/...

When in Rome.

The illusion of infinite efficiency.

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

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

“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

ft.com

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…

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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...

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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🙋🏼‍♀️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'.

Brian Phillips@brianphillips.lol · last yr.

I wrote about the em dash

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.

404media.co

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

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

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...

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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"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 Who Cares Era | dansinker.com

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dan sinker@dansinker.com · last yr.

We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care. I wrote about 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. »

Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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...