Do not fear AI. Fear AI companies
Fri Sep 18 2026 19:00:00 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) We are all scared and tired and we know something is wrong. Follow that (very human) intuition, and see where it leads you. We are all scared We were just laughing at the little details that gave away AI generated images.
- ▪Fri Sep 18 2026 19:00:00 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) We are all scared and tired and we know something is wrong.
- ▪Follow that (very human) intuition, and see where it leads you.
- ▪We are all scared We were just laughing at the little details that gave away AI generated images.
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| Original publisher | Cloudfront |
| Canonical URL | https://df7sc6o35ljoz.cloudfront.net/posts/do-not-fear-ai-rev-2.html |
| Publication time | Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:40:31 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-21T22:58:49.405Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-21T22:58:49.405Z |
| 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 |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Do not fear AI. Fear AI companies. Fri Sep 18 2026 19:00:00 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) We are all scared and tired and we know something is wrong. Follow that (very human) intuition, and see where it leads you. We are all scared We were just laughing at the little details that gave away AI generated images. Ya know, the impossible shadows and hands with six fingers. Now it speaks and thinks like it's human. It's impenetrable sci-fi tech, and it's just like, on my phone now. It's everywhere. And it happened so quickly. AI is being used by business owners to generate ads and business cards. AI music is on spotify. Companies are laying off thousands at a time and blaming it on AI. We're told that the march of technology is inevitable.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Cloudfront.