We Are Satellites

We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker.

What if corporations could enshittify... us

Finished this on the train to drop The Wife off at the airport for her yearly trip home then promptly forgot to write a review for it in the excitement of unlimited gaming time, so this is over a week late.

That's no particular reflection on the book though; it felt very relevant to the times and had some interesting characters/dynamics between them. It came a year and a half after ChatGpt launched so I wonder when the author started writing it and how much the rise of LLMs influenced the direction she took her story.

Neuralink is definitely the obvious inspiration though, so if you were for some reason unconvinced that allowing something Elon Musk had a hand in creating inside your brain is a bad idea read this and you might reconsider that position.