How I Use "AI" (2024)
I don't think that "AI" models [a] I hate this word. But I want people who use this word, and also people who hate this word, to find this post. And so I guess I'm stuck with it for marketing, SEO, and clickbait. (by which I mean: large language models) are over-hyped.
- ▪I don't think that "AI" models [a] I hate this word.
- ▪But I want people who use this word, and also people who hate this word, to find this post.
- ▪And so I guess I'm stuck with it for marketing, SEO, and clickbait. (by which I mean: large language models) are over-hyped.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 20 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
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Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 6,671 of its stories.
Story provenance
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Story provenance
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 | Carlini |
| Canonical URL | https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2024/how-i-use-ai.html |
| Publication time | Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:54:22 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-28T09:11:07.049Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-28T09:11:07.049Z |
| 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 | aJQXDRMzkRZx · 2 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.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
I don't think that "AI" models [a] I hate this word. It's not AI. But I want people who use this word, and also people who hate this word, to find this post. And so I guess I'm stuck with it for marketing, SEO, and clickbait. (by which I mean: large language models) are over-hyped. Yes, it's true that any new technology will attract the grifters. And it is definitely true that many companies like to say they're "Using AI" in the same way they previously said they were powered by "The Blockchain". (As we've seen again, and again, and again, and again.) It's also the case we may be in a bubble. The internet was a bubble that burst in 2000, but the Internet applications we now have are what was previously the stuff of literal science fiction.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Carlini.
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