Status Updates From Searches: Selfhood in the D...

"Char rooms had prepared us for what the internet was becoming - a place where, anonymized and disembodied, we could seek answers to our truest questions."

This is so much greater than I thought it would be

Woof. Started out like a thoughtful consideration of the ethical impossibility of technocapitalism, but the embrace of ChatGPT in the latter half, and the lack of remorse about it even after acknowledging the shady practices of OpenAI, coupled with the frequent seemingly unconscious flagging of the author's financial and educational privileges throughout feels gross. Finishing just so she doesn't win at this point.