Meredith Whittaker on art in the age of AI
Confessions“They try to kill the poets”: Meredith Whittaker on art in the age of AIOctober 1, 2026 · By Chiara TowneMeredith Whittaker is president of the Signal Foundation. Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging platform: non-profit, free to use, no ads. It also collects close to no information on its users.
- ▪Confessions“They try to kill the poets”: Meredith Whittaker on art in the age of AIOctober 1, 2026 · By Chiara TowneMeredith Whittaker is president of the Signal Foundation.
- ▪Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging platform: non-profit, free to use, no ads.
- ▪It also collects close to no information on its users.
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| Original publisher | A Rabbit's Foot |
| Canonical URL | https://a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/confessions/meredith-whittaker-signal/ |
| Publication time | Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:53:56 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-03T13:03:13.005Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-03T13:03:13.005Z |
| 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 | 1SWGlC4v6uwZ · 1 stories |
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| 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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| 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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Confessions“They try to kill the poets”: Meredith Whittaker on art in the age of AIOctober 1, 2026 · By Chiara TowneMeredith Whittaker is president of the Signal Foundation. Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging platform: non-profit, free to use, no ads. It also collects close to no information on its users. Beyond the Signal app, billions more people use its encryption protocols via so-called competitors such as WhatsApp (which uses Signal’s technology narrowly and selectively, offering much more limited privacy)…Nevertheless, Signal stands among these giants for single-handedly creating and maintaining a communication infrastructure, ensuring the human right to private communication across the world, especially in authoritarian states.
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