#reversecentaur — Public Fediverse posts
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AI has made me a reverse centaur at work. As far as I can tell, everyone I work with is in the same situation.
"DO MORE, x1000, use AI"
"How can it accelerate my specific work stream?"
"WE DON'T KNOW BUT OUR AI DRIVEN METRICS SAY YOU SHOULD BE DOING MORE"
We're not quite at the pissing into water bottles or wearing diapers stage, but it's clearly moving in that direction.
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“For Doctorow, it is imperative to see through that hype to the real story, to understand the technology not just for what it does, but for who it does it to and who it does it for. From that point of view, the story of AI is indeed dramatic and unprecedented, having generated an investment bubble so big that it endangers the entire world economy. In The #ReverseCentaur’s Guide to Life After #AI —as he so successfully did in Enshittification—Doctorow recounts both how we found ourselves in this dire situation and how we can get through it, to a life #afterAI in which the tools work for us, not the other way around.”
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621575/thereversecentaursguidetolifeafterai/
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@mjd Sounds like you’re a ‘centaur’ which is good for you, but other people’s experiences as a ‘reverse-centaur’ are bad.
From https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble by @pluralistic
‘a "centaur" is a person who is assisted by a machine. You're a human head being carried around on a tireless robot body. Driving a car makes you a centaur, and so does using autocomplete.
And obviously, a reverse centaur is a machine head on a human body, a person who is serving as a squishy meat appendage for an uncaring machine.
… There are lots of AI tools that are potentially very centaur-like, but my thesis is that these tools are created and funded for the express purpose of creating reverse-centaurs, which is something none of us want to be.’
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Gelesen: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life after AI, How to think about Artificial Intelligence before it's too late (2026) von Cory Doctorow
Wieder ein sehr lesenswertes Buch. Leben nach der KI sollte heißen, das die Tools für uns arbeiten, nicht wir für sie.
Ich glaube auch, dass die AI bubble platzen wird. Je eher, desto besser
#noai #reversecentaur #aibubble #books #bookstodon -
Today I routed my morning walk to touch my local book shop so that I could see if my copy of the #reverseCentaur‘s Guide to Life After #AI by @pluralistic was there.
And just to piss off Zuck, I also got the other book as well.I’m not above a little #virtueSignalling.
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When you read @pluralistic #ReverseCentaur during the day and watch The Hobbit in the evening…
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I received yesterday @pluralistic 's #reversecentaur 's Guide to Life after #AI , and have been reading it...
Page 28 near the bottom is "If you want to get the good without the bad, you need to switch from fighting technologies to fighting bosses."
Aaaaand, from #cyanideandhappiness 'Boss Battle' 😂
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well well well, look what appeared in my mailbox today!!
I am really looking forward to reading @pluralistic 's newest book, "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI."
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Wie leben und arbeiten wir nach dem Hype um „KI“ weiter? @pluralistic dreht den Spieß um: Nicht Menschen sollen zu Anhängseln von Maschinen werden, sondern Maschinen wieder zu Werkzeugen der Menschen.
Cory Doctorows Buch "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" ist am Dienstag erschienen. Leider bisher nur auf Englisch.
Wer lieber Deutsch liest und nicht auf die Übersetzung warten mag, braucht sich aber nicht gedulden.
Wir haben eine Rede von 2025 übersetzt, in der er die zentralen Gedanken seines Buches vorzeichnet.
Natürlich von Hand übersetzt. (LLMs wurden in ihrer Mittelmäßigkeit dem Original nicht mal ansatzweise gerecht.)https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2026/der-umgekehrte-zentaur-ki
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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.
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The role of Cory Doctorow is not to identify solutions but to throw shit against the wall and see what sticks.
Claim #humanintheloop is to blame human is a really dumb take, especially if humans are going to retain and degree of autonomy with #Ai encroaching on all aspects of humanity.
It's like claiming emergency production machine STOP🔴 switch is there to blame human.
Nothing exists in vaccum and pluralistic brain farting that one is as bad a take as his #reversecentaur shit. He is trying to repeat his #enshitification glory and IMHO failing.
Having said that pluralistic is useful, he is a shit stirer with a large cohort of uncritical followers and that is needed to #regulateai
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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
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“I have to admit I felt a little weird as I prepared to toss this flaming incendiary device through [Altman’s] front window, but the recipe explicitly stated that this was an essential step to get that creamy, velvety risotto texture. I guess I didn’t know any better. I mean, I’ve never made risotto before.” The suspect went on to tell reporters that he still had “a whole fridge full” of Molotov cocktails at home, having attempted to prep enough risotto to last the week.”
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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 around. But the #AI industry is fundamentally anti-human.
It's high time more people realize this.
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Niemand würde mehr einen Gedanken an Reinigung verschwenden. Genausowenig würden Menschen noch an Orten arbeiten an denen lungenschädigende Stäube anfallen, sie würden diese aber weiterhin steuern.
Anstelle dessen bekommen wir Systeme die den Menschen vorgeschaltet werden um A) die Drecksarbeit aufrechtzuerhalten bei B) niedrigerem Lohn um C) den Menschen zum Befehlsempfänger zu machen (Reverse Centaur).
Wer sich als AG nicht als Pro-Mensch bekennt ist das Problem. #llm #ki #reverseCentaur -
Someone at work turned on Copilot code reviews on GitHub. Now one has to wait 5 minutes for an AI code review before doing anything else. Is this a #ReverseCentaur situation?
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for instance, regarding the gradually forming AI usage practices/habits, and seeing this piece in the news, I think we could only benefit from touching base with unions of various kinds. See if we have something to offer that they are interested in (teaching, models, ways of criticizing AI), what direction they would like us to go into, what they would like us to investigate and reasearch, and what to argue for or substantiate with scholarly findings and experiences.
https://infosec.exchange/@Cyberoutsider/116141377375695709.
And in the end, it is also us - at least with our RSE hats on, but maybe it even holds for the organisation of academic research as a whole - and our working conditions, tasks and pressures, who are talked about and disposed of in these developments who may be urged to become "reverse centaurs"...
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I'd like to believe all the hype from the #AiAntagonists but to me they all sound like soldiers in a besieged city, cheering the news of the relief columns that never comes.
The article is supremely optimistic, which is fair enough, optimism is needed with one of the key avatars of the #AntiAi movement being sprung using AI himself. The #reversecentaur #asbestosinthewalls guy himself @pluralistic
#AI Blew past the #turingtest so fast, folks were tripping over themselves to bury decades of benchmarking. The previous AI attempts never breached Turing.
Meanwhile, #HLE is climbing up faster than expected, which is the exact opposite of what folks who claim AI is not advancing is.
It seems that the models are capable of Zero-shot learning, reaching accurate results for knowledge not in the training data.
The answer as always is to become politically active and #regulateAI
