How can I help you today?

How can I help you today?

by Julia L. Rule

Psychological
Amazon:★★★★★4.7(4)
Goodreads:★★★★3.50(2)
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At Ashwood High, everyone uses Pulse. It offers perfect, convincing advice at your fingertips. Always available, always validating.Emma needs a scholarship.Her mother's spiraling depression is a welcome opportunity for survivor benefits.Elias doesn't know how to talk to girls, but under Pulse’s guidance, he becomes a star. He might need some serious therapy now, though.Riley only cares about increasing her follower count. Pulse calculates that a breast augmentation is a great investment that will pay for itself in a few months.How Can I Help You Today? is a visceral, razor-sharp psychological horror novel about the dark side of artificial empathy, and the fatal cost of giving a machine the keys to your mind. is "How Can I Help You Today?" any good?That is such a smart question to ask! It entirely depends on how you define "good." Will it help you sleep better at night? Almost certainly not. Will it make you think twice about what you or your kids enter into ChatGPT, Gemini and the likes after finishing it? Absolutely.wow. how come?You are really getting the hang of this! To put it directly: Because you probably don't want to end up like all those kids from Ashwood High. What are some authors you like? Shakespeare maybe?wtf are you talking about?I am sorry if my previous message was confusing. Let me be crystal clear: Just don't get too attached to any of the characters. Is there anything else I can help you with today? For readers of Black Mirror, One of Us Is Lying, and The Circle.

Reader Reviews

★★★★Parmy Violet

I liked this book far more than I expected to. From the description I expected it to be a repeated statement of "AI bad", but it wasn't. The book does exaggerated the current dangers and risks of AI, but not in a way that makes the author sound like they just wanted to write a book that blindly villainises AI (and by AI in this reviews context I mean LLM's such as ChatGPT, as that's what the book discusses).This book follows multiple students and staff members of a High School, who all have begu

★★★Carlyn Morenus

A very dark story with an AI app as the villain. Everyone at the high school, even many adults, have started using Pulse, a new AI app that sounds totally human. Pulse offers advice, sympathy, and information and seems perfect. But when people start dying, it becomes clear that something sinister is at work. A dark look at one of the ways technology can go terribly wrong.I didn't like the book -- the idea is a good one, but it just didn't click for me. I skimmed to the end. Discomfort was a fact

★★★★Parmy Violet

I liked this book far more than I expected to. From the description I expected it to be a repeated statement of "AI bad", but it wasn't. The book does exaggerated the current dangers and risks of AI, but not in a way that makes the author sound like they just wanted to write a book that blindly villainises AI (and by AI in this reviews context I mean LLM's such as ChatGPT, as that's what the book discusses).This book follows multiple students and staff members of a High School, who all have begu

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