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“A hundred years from now, thanks to the workings of the Inhuman Centipede, I’m known as a deservedly obscure dadaist prose stylist who thought it was cool to s
by 3rodents 11mo ago
“A hundred years from now, thanks to the workings of the Inhuman Centipede, I’m known as a deservedly obscure dadaist prose stylist who thought it was cool to stop his books mid-sentence.”
is “Inhuman Centipede” to describe the slop-eating-its-own-tale future we all dread an established term, or an invention of the author? I hope it becomes the term we all use, like slop and clanker.
For those of us writing original words that are consumed by LLMs without our consent, at least we get to be the front of the Inhuman Centipede.
- spuz 11mo agoThe earliest use of this term I can find is here: https://andrewbrown.substack.com/p/the-inhuman-centipede https://andrewbrown.substack.com/p/the-inhuman-centipede It was also used as the title for this post by Cory Doctrow discussing the same problem: https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/14/inhuman-centipede/#enshittibottification https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/14/inhuman-centipede/#enshit...
- cb321 11mo agoThere is also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HumancentiPad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HumancentiPad (which is almost surely an homage to the movie) which was 2011 and tied in all kinds of tech-aspects like licensing and iPads.
- doctorhandshake 11mo agoNot sure if the substitution of ‘tale’ for ‘tail’ was intentional but regardless it’s apropos
- myrmidon 11mo agoI strongly suspect that the term alludes to "human centipede", which is a dutch horror film and involves the titular centipede literally eating his own shit.
- badc0ffee 11mo agoNothing gets past this guy.
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