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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Esquire, Slate, Scientific American, Vox, Electric Literature, Book Riot, Culture Study, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Library Journal
"I cannot imagine a better guide through the infuriating, labyrinthine underworld of technology than Vauhini Vara."—Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House
“Smart, funny, honest.”—The New Yorker • "Seamless blend of personal narrative and systemic critique."—The Atlantic • "Beautifully written and profoundly researched." —Kirkus • "At once genre-defying and gripping.”—The Washington Post
When it was released to the public in November 2022, ChatGPT awakened the world to a secretive project: teaching AI-powered machines to write. Its creators had a sweeping ambition—to 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 award-winning tech journalist and editor, had long been grappling with these questions. In 2021, she asked a predecessor of ChatGPT to write about her sister’s 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 corporate-owned technologies, forced Vara to interrogate how these technologies have influenced her understanding of herself and the world around her—from discovering online chat rooms as a preteen to using social media as The Wall Street Journal’s first Facebook reporter to asking ChatGPT for writing advice—while compelling her to add to the trove of human-created material exploited for corporate financial gain. Interspersed throughout this investigation are her own Google searches, Amazon reviews, and the other raw material of internet life—including 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.
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Esquire, Slate, Scientific American, Vox, Electric Literature, Book Riot, Culture Study, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Library Journal
"I cannot imagine a better guide through the infuriating, labyrinthine underworld of technology than Vauhini Vara."—Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House
“Smart, funny, honest.”—The New Yorker • "Seamless blend of personal narrative and systemic critique."—The Atlantic • "Beautifully written and profoundly researched." —Kirkus • "At once genre-defying and gripping.”—The Washington Post
When it was released to the public in November 2022, ChatGPT awakened the world to a secretive project: teaching AI-powered machines to write. Its creators had a sweeping ambition—to 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 award-winning tech journalist and editor, had long been grappling with these questions. In 2021, she asked a predecessor of ChatGPT to write about her sister’s 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 corporate-owned technologies, forced Vara to interrogate how these technologies have influenced her understanding of herself and the world around her—from discovering online chat rooms as a preteen to using social media as The Wall Street Journal’s first Facebook reporter to asking ChatGPT for writing advice—while compelling her to add to the trove of human-created material exploited for corporate financial gain. Interspersed throughout this investigation are her own Google searches, Amazon reviews, and the other raw material of internet life—including 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.
1. Your Whole Life Will Be Searchable 5
2. Searches 21
Thank You for Sharing 26
3. I Gifted It to Them 28
4. A Great Deal 43
The Balance of These Narratives 55
5. We Can All Connect and Share 59
6. Elon Musk, Empire 79
Acknowledge Positive Contributions 83
7. Stealing Great Ideas 91
8. I Am Hungry to Talk 104
Lowering Defenses 134
9. We Have to Do a Magic Trick 140
10. Ghosts 149
A Powerful Statement of Empowerment 165
11. Record the World 182
12. Resurrections 197
These Rhetorical Strategies 236
13. Thank You for Your Important Work 243
14. Penumbra 260
Hey, Sis 270
15. The Master’s Tools 273
16. What Is It Like to Be Alive? 291
Acknowledgments 327
Notes on Process 331
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - fest (Hardcover) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780593701522 |
| ISBN-10: | 0593701526 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Vara, Vauhini |
| Hersteller: |
Random House LLC US
Pantheon |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 159 x 237 x 33 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Vauhini Vara |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 08.04.2025 |
| Gewicht: | 0,542 kg |
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