Ask HN: Is there a market for AI critics?
Junk science?People would use their influence to get a shitty paper into a top tier venue, then others would parrot their style and cry discrimination if they too weren't allowed to do shitty science.Anyways... I have a background in policy and infosec that makes me uniquely skilled to help companies that SINCERELY want to use AI to improve their business flows.Is there a market for this? I think I could add value somewhere, but maybe I'm biased.[1] python3 -c 'print("I can do python now")'
- ▪Junk science?People would use their influence to get a shitty paper into a top tier venue, then others would parrot their style and cry discrimination if they too weren't allowed to do shitty science.Anyways...
- ▪I have a background in policy and infosec that makes me uniquely skilled to help companies that SINCERELY want to use AI to improve their business flows.Is there a market for this?
- ▪I think I could add value somewhere, but maybe I'm biased.[1] python3 -c 'print("I can do python now")'
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| Original publisher | Ycombinator |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49911647 |
| Publication time | Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:08:39 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-30T17:17:01.795Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-30T17:17:01.795Z |
| 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 | Dtm5AjxgG3FN · 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 |
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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 |
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I have a bit of an odd background -- like a lot of folks, I became interested in IT security during the free fire zone that was the late 90s and early 2000s internet -- battlefield promoted at age 12 into household sysadmin was an... interesting dynamic. (Parents try to take compy away, it inevitably fills with bloatware after a few days)Flash forward -- after reporting an insider threat, I don't currently work in IT security, and took on a job in retail.They seem to struggle with statistics -- I'm having flashbacks to when my professors would pawn their conference reviews onto me.One of the reasons I dropped out of my PhD was the circular firing squad of academic misconduct... well maybe misconduct is a bad word.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.