{"product_id":"searches-von-vauhini-vara","title":"Searches","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Immortal King Rao, \u003c\/i\u003efinalist for the Pulitzer Prize,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ea personal and provocative exploration of how technology companies have reshaped human language, and, if we let them, could steal it from us\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen it was released to the public in November 2022, ChatGPT awakened the world to a secretive project: teaching A.I.-powered machines to write and talk like human beings. Its creators had a sweeping ambition—to get machines to communicate for us. But if this came to pass, would it be liberation or subjugation? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVauhini Vara, an award-winning tech journalist and editor, had long been grappling with this question. In 2021, she used 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe experience, revealing both the appeal and the danger of corporate-owned language machines, forced Vara to interrogate how technology has changed how she uses language, from discovering online chat rooms as a preteen, to using social media as the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal’\u003c\/i\u003es first Facebook reporter, to testing early versions of ChatGPT—all while adding to the trove of human-created material that Big Tech exploits. Interspersed throughout this investigation are her own Google searches, Amazon reviews, and the other raw material of internet life—including the viral A.I. experiment that started it all. \u003ci\u003eSearches\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates Big Tech’s incursion into our lives, while proposing that by harnessing the collective imagination that taught us to communicate in the first place, we might invent a nobler, freer relationship with our machines and, ultimately, with one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9780593701522\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSelfhood in the Digital Age\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9780593701522","offer_id":54487511105861,"sku":"9780593701522","price":19.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/f118b320-3769-4c63-988b-2c620317a4fd.jpg?v=1780718748","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/searches-von-vauhini-vara","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}