I definitely learned a lot listening to this book. I hadn't known much at all about some of these various forms of technology, so it was good to be presented with so much discussion and examples of misogyny and harm. It's wild to me how many options there are in place that could be used to harm women and children, and especially how many of them are free to use and anonymous. I felt disgusted and enraged and terribly sad multiple times listening to this book as the author describes how prevalent this technology is and how widespread the harm already is and has been. I felt like the author makes so many good points about how now is the time for stronger regulation, when these technologies are still in their infancy.

It's so disheartening to know how slowly the legal systems move and I do wish there had been a little bit more content in the book with more clear-cut actions that any reader could take to help improve things. There is some discussion in the last few pages about this topic, but I fear that the people who are most in place to make changes are not the target audience of this book. And as the author explains over and over, the people who are in the best place to make effective changes to help protect users (women and girls and everyone!) are the ones who are already making the most profit on the current systems and therefore there's essentially no incentive to introduce new rules or increase the amount of moderation and regulation. In fact some of these technologies sounded to me as if they were being explicitly designed and created with only a flimsy premise for them existing, when it feels obvious that the primary reason that they do exist is actually to be the harm that they cause.

Overall I was quite engaged with this text, it was often a situation of "I can't turn away from this horrible thing" and I frequently felt mad, anxious and depressed while thinking about the scope of these issues. There was a little bit of repetition/similar themes that could have maybe been combined, and I'd have liked further discussion about how AI is bad for the environment and for our own mental states too. There was a random line where the author herself admits to using ChatGPT to help her write the book?? Obviously she'd used the AI that was the exploration of the programs she was critiquing, but I did a double-take when she pointed out all the "great ways" that AI could still be useful, that felt somewhat counter-intuitive to the rest of the text...

Audiobook narrated by the author, was a fun accent and good pacing, I felt she was the right level of impassioned in her speech.