Filterworld and Code Dependent: Potentially Devastating Outcomes of Algorithmic Technology

Filterworld by Kyle Chayka and Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia illuminate the dangers of AI and other technology and how they damage modern lifeWhen it comes to AI, we are all, ultimately, the precariat, at the questionable mercies of large tech companies and AI algorithms.

Writer Maggie Armstrong: ‘I wanted to be a wastrel. I had no ambitions ever, for anything. Is that a symptom of the age?’Despite AI’s many possible positives, Murgia exposes how most AI software and uses are based on a significant degree of data colonialism and exploiting the ‘precariat’ His discussion of Amazon’s role in reshaping publishing in the most disheartening ways is another striking and convincing example of Filterworld’s workings, in part because it’s bolstered with facts and figures, forming a personal, though well-informed, hot-take. However, in one of the book’s weaker moments, Chayka uses Sally Rooney as a confusing example of… well, it’s hard to tell quite what.

Like Filterworld, Murgia’s take on AI is richly considered, but also meticulously supported with footnotes and a good index . It’s simultaneously a thoughtful introduction to AI, because potentially forbidding technical details are unobtrusive and serve the very human individual stories; and a deep dive for anyone who already knows quite a lot about AI, or thinks they do – for exactly the same reason.

Seeking to better understand AI’s impacts, Murgia travels to both nearby and far-flung places to find those affected and asks “the small, human questions”. She talks to the heartbreakingly real people whose wellbeing and dignity is being sacrificed on the altar of ChatGPT, facial recognition technologies and monetisable AI apps and programs designed for the world’s better-off individuals and societies.

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