Joanna Stern

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2,829 appearances 9 recordings 8 series first heard Jun 2025 last heard 19 Jun

Joanna Stern’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Like sounds like some beautiful, you know, yeah.

Essay about my life.

Um,

But this all to say is like hours and hours and hours of data went to this company, which was then bought by Amazon later in the year.

And so think about how much data just that sliver of what I did was.

And then there were the therapist sessions.

There were all of the things that I did with my book bots, which were my book assistants.

There were all of the things I did with talking to my AI boyfriend.

I mean, all these hours and this data that I was giving over to these tech companies, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic.

dozens of companies.

And so that's part of the cost, right?

I mean, that was a big thing.

I mean, there was actual monetary costs too, right?

Like subscriptions and stuff like that.

But I wasn't as focused on that.

It wasn't a considerable amount of money.

But I think the costs that we have to consider are where is our data going and what is the cost to our privacy?

Because I was fundamentally like creating a surveillance state of my life.

Well, to be clear on the recording, like I did get very good at telling people, hey, I'm going to be recording this.

And that's part of one of the diary entries in the book, which is how I sort of get through some of these fun stories.

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