Cory Doctorow: the 'reverse centaur' who takes the blame for AI's mistakes (pluralistic.net)
A Hearst freelancer got a byline on a 64-page summer reading guide full of hallucinated books — work that used to take three interns and a fact-checking desk. Cory Doctorow's name for that setup: a "reverse centaur," where the machine drives and the human absorbs the blame.
On Hacker News, John Nagle, who read Doctorow's full book on the idea, said it undersells how cheaply AI now lets corporations run the kind of surveillance only a government once could afford.
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