Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories

A fine, workaday collection of spec fic short stories.

Cat Pictures Please definitely shined brightest - it envisions a world of a do-gooder ChatGPT, trapped in its search engines and chatbots, trying to surreptitiously improve the lives of its stubbornly-irrational human users. This was a clever, funny, and satisfying read.

The rest weren't quite as good, but they were decent. There was an uncomfortably prescient short story about a Covid-esque plague - I checked, and that was published in 2015.