Banning AI will not make it go away
A 16 year old lifeguard in Santa Cruz rescued a boy from drowning in large breaking waves close to the beach. The same swell, affecting San Diego County has resulted in hundreds of rescues. They say that every year a few people go for a swim at Ocean Beach in San Francisco.
- ▪A 16 year old lifeguard in Santa Cruz rescued a boy from drowning in large breaking waves close to the beach.
- ▪The same swell, affecting San Diego County has resulted in hundreds of rescues.
- ▪They say that every year a few people go for a swim at Ocean Beach in San Francisco.
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| Original publisher | Vishal |
| Canonical URL | https://vishal.rs/essay/banning-ai-will-not-make-it-go-away |
| Publication time | Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:45:13 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-28T22:51:00.352Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-28T22:51:00.352Z |
| 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 | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| 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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| 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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A 16 year old lifeguard in Santa Cruz rescued a boy from drowning in large breaking waves close to the beach. The same swell, affecting San Diego County has resulted in hundreds of rescues. They say that every year a few people go for a swim at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. By the time they look back land is a lot farther than they expected. They panic and start swimming against the rip current. Not even Michael Phelps would stand a chance. Yet, many watermen and women use the same currents to make paddling out a breeze. The barrier to entry for an industrialist was an expensive machine. The barrier to entry for a white collar office worker to benefit from personal computers was an expensive, but affordable machine.
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