#ReverseCentaur
#CoryDoctorow
#AI
• #ReverseCentaur: A human who is forced by technology to serve a machine or work at an inhuman, relentless pace dictated by corporate quotas (like timed warehouse workers or monitored drivers)
#CoryDoctorow
#AI
• #ReverseCentaur: A human who is forced by technology to serve a machine or work at an inhuman, relentless pace dictated by corporate quotas (like timed warehouse workers or monitored drivers)
The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI audiobook sample
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September 29, 2026 at 8:53 AM
#ReverseCentaur
#CoryDoctorow
#AI
• #ReverseCentaur: A human who is forced by technology to serve a machine or work at an inhuman, relentless pace dictated by corporate quotas (like timed warehouse workers or monitored drivers)
#CoryDoctorow
#AI
• #ReverseCentaur: A human who is forced by technology to serve a machine or work at an inhuman, relentless pace dictated by corporate quotas (like timed warehouse workers or monitored drivers)
Personally, I’m always happy to get a surprise visit from Reverse Centaur.
#reversecentaur
#reversecentaur
December 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Personally, I’m always happy to get a surprise visit from Reverse Centaur.
#reversecentaur
#reversecentaur
Shots fired. @doctorow.pluralistic.net #reversecentaur
October 2, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Shots fired. @doctorow.pluralistic.net #reversecentaur
*So, then, you're that "human in the loop" placed there by your overlords as the "moral crumple zone" and the "accountability sink" #AI #oligarchy #reversecentaur
I can't wait to share everything with my tech overlords and blame sci-fi dystopia for the eventual result...
March 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
*So, then, you're that "human in the loop" placed there by your overlords as the "moral crumple zone" and the "accountability sink" #AI #oligarchy #reversecentaur
December 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
November 25, 2023 at 5:57 PM
Great. Read most of #reversecentaur from @doctorow.pluralistic.net and I think I'm still a unicorn instead of anything else. Photographer who hates AI photo gen but has found ways to use AI and make myself a more prolific and better photographer because of it.
#doctorow #AI #weirdo #photography
#doctorow #AI #weirdo #photography
June 24, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Great. Read most of #reversecentaur from @doctorow.pluralistic.net and I think I'm still a unicorn instead of anything else. Photographer who hates AI photo gen but has found ways to use AI and make myself a more prolific and better photographer because of it.
#doctorow #AI #weirdo #photography
#doctorow #AI #weirdo #photography
Breaking AI's human interface
"But as companies move towards an AI-augmented future, some experts worry that the removal of mundane repetitive work could starve early-career staff of the experience that they might one day need when overseeing hybrid teams of humans and AI agents."
#ReverseCentaur
"But as companies move towards an AI-augmented future, some experts worry that the removal of mundane repetitive work could starve early-career staff of the experience that they might one day need when overseeing hybrid teams of humans and AI agents."
#ReverseCentaur
AI isn’t destroying entry-level jobs. It’s changing them
Here are the ways leading companies are already responding to the AI revolution in professional services
www.ft.com
July 18, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Breaking AI's human interface
"But as companies move towards an AI-augmented future, some experts worry that the removal of mundane repetitive work could starve early-career staff of the experience that they might one day need when overseeing hybrid teams of humans and AI agents."
#ReverseCentaur
"But as companies move towards an AI-augmented future, some experts worry that the removal of mundane repetitive work could starve early-career staff of the experience that they might one day need when overseeing hybrid teams of humans and AI agents."
#ReverseCentaur
Learning a lot from Cory Doctorow's new book "Reverse-Centaur's Guide". Clear, eye-opening reasoning on important present issues.
Did you know that the AI companies' outlandish claims are marketing directed to venture capital firms? Not to you or your boss.
#ai #aibubble #llm #reversecentaur
Did you know that the AI companies' outlandish claims are marketing directed to venture capital firms? Not to you or your boss.
#ai #aibubble #llm #reversecentaur
June 26, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Learning a lot from Cory Doctorow's new book "Reverse-Centaur's Guide". Clear, eye-opening reasoning on important present issues.
Did you know that the AI companies' outlandish claims are marketing directed to venture capital firms? Not to you or your boss.
#ai #aibubble #llm #reversecentaur
Did you know that the AI companies' outlandish claims are marketing directed to venture capital firms? Not to you or your boss.
#ai #aibubble #llm #reversecentaur
♻️ gimulnautti: @pluralistic this:
’The role of this "human in the loop" isn't to prevent errors. That human's is there to be blamed for errors’
#ai #reversecentaur
’The role of this "human in the loop" isn't to prevent errors. That human's is there to be blamed for errors’
#ai #reversecentaur
March 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM
♻️ gimulnautti: @pluralistic this:
’The role of this "human in the loop" isn't to prevent errors. That human's is there to be blamed for errors’
#ai #reversecentaur
’The role of this "human in the loop" isn't to prevent errors. That human's is there to be blamed for errors’
#ai #reversecentaur
Great interview with @pluralistic with The Atlantic. Looking forward to reading the new book!
(Hope I can understand the economics' concepts)
#ai #reversecentaur #enshittification
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPQNPJ0CEPo
(Hope I can understand the economics' concepts)
#ai #reversecentaur #enshittification
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPQNPJ0CEPo
June 24, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Great interview with @pluralistic with The Atlantic. Looking forward to reading the new book!
(Hope I can understand the economics' concepts)
#ai #reversecentaur #enshittification
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPQNPJ0CEPo
(Hope I can understand the economics' concepts)
#ai #reversecentaur #enshittification
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPQNPJ0CEPo
The Guardian has a review: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j... #CoryDoctorow #Fuck AI #ReverseCentaur
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence
A vivid and entertaining polemnic on the economics of the tech revolution, filled with righteous ire
www.theguardian.com
June 22, 2026 at 11:43 AM
The Guardian has a review: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j... #CoryDoctorow #Fuck AI #ReverseCentaur
Italo Calvino's 'If on a Winter's Night a Traveler' (1979) is rather prophetic in how computer produced content leads to a mass production of random noise, which then is marketed or not based on response. #Calvino #llm #reversecentaur #postmodernism
![Page 128, reading:
held fast by the serpentine wires of the encephalogram that mark the intensity of her concentration and the frequency of stimuli. "All our work depends on the sensitivity of the subiect at our disposal for the control
tests: and it must, moreover, be a person of strong eyesight and nerves to be subjected to the uninterrupted reading of novels and variants of novels as thev are turned out by the computer.
If reading attention reaches certain highs with a certain continuity, the product is viable and can be launched on the market: if attention, on the contrary, relaxes and shifts, the combination is rejected and its elements are broken up and used again in other contexts." The man in the white smock rips off one encephalogram after another, as if they were pages from a calendar. "Worse and worse." he says. "Not one novel being produced holds up Either the programming has to be revised or the reader is not functioning."
I look at the slim face between the blinders
earplugs and and the visor. impassive also because of the chin strap that keeps the jaw from moving. What will her fate be?
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April 19, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Italo Calvino's 'If on a Winter's Night a Traveler' (1979) is rather prophetic in how computer produced content leads to a mass production of random noise, which then is marketed or not based on response. #Calvino #llm #reversecentaur #postmodernism
Finished @Cory Doctorow's newest book, "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI." Read this! Not just full of timely insights; also rich with his usual combo of deep knowledge and skill explaining complex stuff. I felt smarter after every chapter, and wanted to share many. #ReverseCentaur
August 18, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Finished @Cory Doctorow's newest book, "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI." Read this! Not just full of timely insights; also rich with his usual combo of deep knowledge and skill explaining complex stuff. I felt smarter after every chapter, and wanted to share many. #ReverseCentaur
Don't forget that Cory @Doctorow's new book, "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence—Before It's Too Late", comes out *tomorrow*.
#CoryDoctorow #ReverseCentaur
#CoryDoctorow #ReverseCentaur
June 22, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Don't forget that Cory @Doctorow's new book, "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence—Before It's Too Late", comes out *tomorrow*.
#CoryDoctorow #ReverseCentaur
#CoryDoctorow #ReverseCentaur
#TIL about the term #ReverseCentaur in Cory Doctorow's piece: "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing #AI"
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
Basically a very dark pattern where the human is not using the AI tool as a helper, but is kept in the loop to take the blame for the failures.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
Basically a very dark pattern where the human is not using the AI tool as a helper, but is kept in the loop to take the blame for the failures.
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
December 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
#TIL about the term #ReverseCentaur in Cory Doctorow's piece: "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing #AI"
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
Basically a very dark pattern where the human is not using the AI tool as a helper, but is kept in the loop to take the blame for the failures.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
Basically a very dark pattern where the human is not using the AI tool as a helper, but is kept in the loop to take the blame for the failures.
I hadn't heard about this kind of #reversecentaur before:
"The only winner that emerges are the platforms in the global north [that] capture all the enduring value."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/21/ai-trainers-identity-cost
People should use machines, not the other way […]
"The only winner that emerges are the platforms in the global north [that] capture all the enduring value."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/21/ai-trainers-identity-cost
People should use machines, not the other way […]
Original post on spore.social
spore.social
March 22, 2026 at 11:16 AM
I hadn't heard about this kind of #reversecentaur before:
"The only winner that emerges are the platforms in the global north [that] capture all the enduring value."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/21/ai-trainers-identity-cost
People should use machines, not the other way […]
"The only winner that emerges are the platforms in the global north [that] capture all the enduring value."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/21/ai-trainers-identity-cost
People should use machines, not the other way […]