The Spanish writer, journalist, and politician Irene Lozano, former director of Casa Árabe, presents in the book Contra la bazofia digital (Against Digital Rubbish) an urgent plea for human intelligence and the pride of being mortal. In the midst of the artificial intelligence revolution, a defense of human thought, personal judgment, and real conversation.
In just a few years, artificial intelligence language models have gone from being a technological curiosity to becoming everyday tools. They write emails, do our children’s homework, advise us on vital decisions, and, above all, produce content without limits. They have burst into creative professions, but they have also colonized offices, classrooms, and social networks, flooding the internet with what Irene Lozano calls “digital rubbish”: texts that appear flawless but lack humanity and are empty of meaning.
Against techno-optimistic euphoria and uncritical resignation, this brave essay delves into uncomfortable territory: how language models alter our relationship with words, erode inner dialogue, and replace human conversation with a substitute. But above all, it raises a fundamental question: what will happen to our ability to reflect and make sense of the world if we delegate thinking to machines?
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Ediciones Península
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9788411005050
Price: 17.95 euros