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Searches: Selfhood In The Digital Age
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From The Author Of The Immortal King Rao, Finalist For The Pulitzer Prize, A Personal Exploration Of How Technology Companies Have Both Fulfilled And Exploited The Human Desire For Understanding And Connectiona Best Book Of The Year: Esquire, Slate, Scientific American, Vox, Electric Literature, Book Riot, Culture Study, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Library JournalI Cannot Imagine A Better Guide Through The Infuriating, Labyrinthine Underworld Of Technology Than Vauhini Vara.Carmen Maria Machado, Author Of In The Dream HouseSmart, Funny, Honest.The New Yorker Seamless Blend Of Personal Narrative And Systemic Critique.The Atlantic Beautifully Written And Profoundly Researched. Kirkus At Once GenreDefying And Gripping.The Washington Postwhen It Was Released To The Public In November 2022, Chatgpt Awakened The World To A Secretive Project: Teaching AiPowered Machines To Write. Its Creators Had A Sweeping AmbitionTo Build Machines That Not Only Could Communicate But Also Could Do All Kinds Of Other Activities, And Better Than Humans Ever Could. But Was This Goal Actually Achievable? And If Reached, Would It Lead To Our Liberation Or Our Subjugation?Vauhini Vara, An AwardWinning Tech Journalist And Editor, Had Long Been Grappling With These Questions. In 2021, She Asked A Predecessor Of Chatgpt To Write About Her SisterS Death, Resulting In An Essay That Was Both More Moving And More Disturbing Than She Could Have Imagined. It Quickly Went Viral.The Experience, Revealing Both The Power And The Danger Of CorporateOwned Technologies, Forced Vara To Interrogate How These Technologies Have Influenced Her Understanding Of Herself And The World Around HerFrom Discovering Online Chat Rooms As A Preteen To Using Social Media As The Wall Street JournalS First Facebook Reporter To Asking Chatgpt For Writing AdviceWhile Compelling Her To Add To The Trove Of HumanCreated Material Exploited For Corporate Financial Gain. Interspersed Throughout This Investigation Are Her Own Google Searches, Amazon Reviews, And The Other Raw Material Of Internet LifeIncluding The Viral Ai Experiment That Started It All. Searches Illuminates How Technological Capitalism Is Both Shaping And Exploiting Human Existence While Proposing That By Harnessing The Collective Creativity That Makes Humans Unique, We Might Imagine A Freer, More Empowered Relationship With Our Machines And, Ultimately, With One Another.
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