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Claude AIs tricked into unescapable conversation [beginning: Ctrl^F to "AI 1"]
Full episode Toggle Audio and Transcript Sync Transcript | Episode #896 | August 28, 2026 896: I Know What You Need Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. Transcripts are generated using a combination of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain errors.
- ▪Full episode Toggle Audio and Transcript Sync Transcript | Episode #896 | August 28, 2026 896: I Know What You Need Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard.
- ▪If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page.
- ▪Transcripts are generated using a combination of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain errors.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 4,621 of its stories.
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | This American Life |
| Canonical URL | https://www.thisamericanlife.org/896/transcript |
| Publication time | Sun, 13 Sep 2026 04:52:16 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-13T05:01:50.323Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-13T05:01:50.323Z |
| 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 | SGqU4oZMPFTz · 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.
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Full episode Toggle Audio and Transcript Sync Transcript | Episode #896 | August 28, 2026 896: I Know What You Need Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. Transcripts are generated using a combination of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting in print. Prologue: Prologue Ira Glass When she was in her late 20s, Devon was in grad school in Memphis and scraping by, like you do in grad school. When her car broke down, she didn't have the money to fix it for months. She worked as a waitress, which she really liked.
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