India, June 28 -- When it was released in November 2022, ChatGPT awakened the world to a secretive project: teaching AI-powered machines to write. In 2021, tech journalist Vauhini Vara had asked a predecessor of ChatGPT to write about her sister's death, resulting in an essay that was both moving and disturbing. It quickly went viral. The experience, revealing both the power and danger of corporate-owned technologies, forced Vara to interrogate how these technologies had influenced her understanding of herself and her world. Searches illuminates how technological capitalism is both shaping and exploiting human existence while proposing that, by harnessing collective creativity, we might imagine a more empowered relationship with our machines and with one another....