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It was readers, particularly readers of sentimental novels, and the new emotionally driven picture of humanity they made popular, who expressed their dissatisfaction with the old regimes in France and Germany, and, harnessing the power of the press, swept them away.
The Chained Reader
David Samuels
In algorithmic culture, the archives will be the source of power. They will also be prisons. Use ChatGPT for a bit and you’ll see the deal it invisibly offers: The machine allows you to write whatever you like, instantly, freely, with no effort, just so long as it’s like everything that has come before.
Welcome to the Big Blur
theatlantic.com
The extent to which our inner lives are being flattened and made public—meaning less subject to our own control, and more accessible to direct manipulation and censorship by state and quasi-ecclesiastical actors—should give us pause.
The Chained Reader
David Samuels
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