The term of art for this is becoming a "Reverse Centaur:"
A “centaur” is a human being who is assisted by a machine (a human head on a strong and tireless body). A reverse centaur is a machine that uses a human being as its assistant (a frail and vulnerable person being puppeteered by an uncaring, relentless machine).
The term of art for this is becoming a "Reverse Centaur:"
A “centaur” is a human being who is assisted by a machine (a human head on a strong and tireless body). A reverse centaur is a machine that uses a human being as its assistant (a frail and vulnerable person being puppeteered by an uncaring, relentless machine).
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-09-11...
What's the term if your car is an old clunker, and you're forever having to tinker to keep it running you around town?
Poverty
Sucker?
You don't remember this classic?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30878489
We're acclimating ourselves to the inevitable service to our future AI overlords
I agree that the deal the site proposes is essentially being a slave to an AI agent.
Other than the getting paid part. Let’s not trivialize slavery by making it equivalent to gig work.
That's definitely not trivializing. Algorithmic slavery should be a thing and discussed, it's real slavery.