If you support unions (DUers should) but still think it's OK to post AI slop, see the hundreds of Bluesky replies [View all]

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to this post of AI slop. Real anger and outrage from union members and union supporters.

I posted about this earlier but didn't realize, till I saw one of the replies to my thread, that some people here still don't understand that anger and outrage.

I did post a very small selection of the responses, but that small selection really can't convey the backlash that users/supporters of genAI deservedly get from union members and supporters who are focused on the ongoing battle against those who harm and exploit workers.

So I'm posting this separate thread because on a message board where we should support unions, people need to understand just how jarring and disgusting posting AI slop here WILL look to a lot - probably the vast majority - of union members and supporters who are new to this board. Where we've been seeing more and more slop here as if it's harmless entertainment, or somehow effective in fighting Trump. I've been trying to make it clear to DUers that even if it's anti-Trump, it's still pro-AI and pro-exploitation and anti-worker and anti-artist and anti-human.

And if you use it, you undermine your own credibility if you want people to think you oppose all the harm done by genAI. Including to workers.

See the reactions in the replies, and the quote-reposts, to the Bluesky post below, AI slop posted by the head of a teacher's union. Viewing the replies will require clicking on the post to see it on a separate page on Bluesky. If you seem to have run out of replies after reading for a while, look for the link to click for more at the bottom left of the visible replies. If you don't know how to find the quote-repost type of reply where the comments on the message below are above the quoted message, you just click the word quotes below the message you'll see on Bluesky.

And please read ALL of them, if you don't understand why it's wrong to use genAI.

This one was such fun… so I am sharing

— Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 (@rweingarten.bsky.social) 2025-12-25T15:03:54.480Z