Ask HN: How do you cope with AI being used to target and bomb children?
A user on Hacker News expresses indifference toward reports of AI being used to target and bomb children. The commenter states that they are desensitized to such news due to fifteen years of perceived emotional manipulation. They conclude that the situation is simply a matter of life continuing as it is.
- ▪The user claims to be indifferent to the news because AI has been used for such purposes before.
- ▪The commenter attributes their lack of emotional response to fifteen years of being urged to feel sad or angry.
- ▪The post argues that the use of better AI for targeting children is just a continuation of existing realities.
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Story provenance
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Record
| Original publisher | Ycombinator |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812905 |
| Publication time | Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:48:08 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-23T07:59:30.610Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-23T07:59:30.610Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | bRYNtaB88LVk · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
I don’t care really.It’s not news. AI was already being used that way. It’s just that now better ai is being used to do that.To be 100% honest, fifteen years of woke this and woke that trying to urge me to be sad or angry for this and for that have largely desensitised me to most things.AI is being used to target and bomb children? Such is life. It is what it is.
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.