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The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life after AI

The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life after AI

A short, provocative guide to what's good, bad, and stupid about AI and the discourse around AI, by the author of Enshittification.

2026

Stories

Pinned

Cory Doctorow

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Oct 15

Object permanence

Publisher won’t revert rights; SNL’s Trump/Clinton debate; Chicago Tribune’s murder; AI after AI.

Object permanence

Cory Doctorow

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7h ago

The AI fatfinger economy has come for my receipts app

Every heretofore useful button now summons a useless AI genie.

A many-armed pulp science fiction robot pins a giant finger using its spiked appendages. In the background is an architectural rendering of a grand 16th century city.

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7h ago

Object permanence

Army Times v Rumsfeld; RIAA v soccer mom; Skateboard truck table; Internet scare-story prof won’t show her workings; IoT botnet v Liberia…

Object permanence

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1d ago

Object permanence

Haircase; There’s no copyright policy; Sole and despotic dominion; Trump x fraud; Brexit requires an act of Parliament; Official Air Travel…

Object permanence

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1d ago

Separable

AI makes us deal with paintings without painters, words without writers and mathematics without mathematicians.

A red-tinted black-and-white photo of a 1930s classroom whose chalkboard is covered with calculus work. The teacher and students have all been replaced with pulp sf magazine robots.

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2d ago

Object permanence

Supercuts; Antivax x Trump.

Object permanence

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2d ago

Autodoxing

The road to hell is paved with badly thought-through tech policy.

An engraving of a high-ceilinged Edwardian bathroom; it has been altered so that all the fixtures are leaking, flooding the floor. Peering up from the flooded water are various robot-heads.

Cory Doctorow

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3d ago

Object permanence

Shakespeare programming language; DeCSS is “pure speech”; Blue Coat sold surveillance tools to Syrian secret police; “Extraordinary Catalog…

Object permanence

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4d ago

Object permanence

Image analogies; Aussie DMCA ratfucked; “Authorised Domain”; Sales tax is regressive; Prince Charles’s secret veto; Wells Fargo blackballed…

Object permanence

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4d ago

Formalities

When it comes to AI, the Copyright Office is restoring copyright to its proper status, as something you have to work to get.

A humanoid robot with blue skin pocked with transparent patches that show circuit boards beneath. Its eyes are yellow copyright symbols. It is admiring its reflection in a mirror supported by a gold robot. The reflection of the robot has red x’s in its eyes instead of copyright symbols.

Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow

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Writer, blogger, activist. Blog: https://pluralistic.net; Mailing list: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list; Mastodon: @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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