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The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI

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Cory Doctorow, known for coining "enshittification," has written a new book arguing that AI is a massively overhyped, money-losing bubble that harms workers by turning them into "reverse centaurs" — people forced to serve machines rather than the other way around. He's funding the audiobook through Kickstarter to bypass Amazon's monopolistic audiobook ecosystem.

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