There’s no shortage of speculation about what generative AI portends for culture: Visions range from a “dead internet,” in which bots produce the majority of online content, to utopic redistribution scenarios, in which universal basic income grants humans unprecedented creative leisure. But for more than a decade—before many people had ever heard of a large language model (LLM)—artist Trevor Paglen has been making work about what generative AI is already doing to culture. His incisive new book, How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI, distills key insights from his practice to make the case that mainstream understanding of images remains stuck in an outdated paradigm.