Big AI to Humanity: Drop Dead
Big AI to humanity: drop dead12 September 2026Recently, journalists have sought comment from me on a series of unusual AI events. In 2022, I learned that my own works were in the training datasets of generative-AI companies. In response, I invented the first set of lawsuits challenging the legality of these practices.
- ▪Big AI to humanity: drop dead12 September 2026Recently, journalists have sought comment from me on a series of unusual AI events.
- ▪In 2022, I learned that my own works were in the training datasets of generative-AI companies.
- ▪In response, I invented the first set of lawsuits challenging the legality of these practices.
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| Original publisher | Matthewbutterick |
| Canonical URL | https://matthewbutterick.com/chron/drop-dead.html |
| Publication time | Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:56:18 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-13T15:06:50.080Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-13T15:06:50.080Z |
| 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 | 2HtbA0069Yap · 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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| 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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Big AI to humanity: drop dead12 September 2026Recently, journalists have sought comment from me on a series of unusual AI events. Last week, in a certain AI copyright case, the US government filed a “statement of interest” in support of AI training being fair use of copyrighted works. (No comment.) This week, workers at a certain AI company posted gloomy messages on social media about the possibility of AI extinguishing human life, so I was asked whether “crimes against humanity” have been committed by these AI companies. (No comment.) Meanwhile, op-eds in major US newspapers are calling for something, anything to be done.I’m a self-employed author, designer, programmer, and lawyer.
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