"Zuzai" is to AI what vegan is to animal products
I'll begin with something obvious: things made with AI tools are proliferating in lots of places where lots of people don't want them. A positive, lively word that doesn't center AI and that is broadly applicable. I'll get more into the why later, but first, I'll introduce my candidate ...
- ▪I'll begin with something obvious: things made with AI tools are proliferating in lots of places where lots of people don't want them.
- ▪A positive, lively word that doesn't center AI and that is broadly applicable.
- ▪I'll get more into the why later, but first, I'll introduce my candidate ...
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| Original publisher | Zuzai |
| Canonical URL | https://zuzai.org/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:27:37 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-27T02:48:42.886Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-27T02:48:42.886Z |
| 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 | o-3IhVjQRv8v · 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.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
We need a new word. How about ... zuzai? I'll begin with something obvious: things made with AI tools are proliferating in lots of places where lots of people don't want them. Not so obvious: we don't have a good, crisp word to indicate that something is not one of these things, in other words, that it is free of AI.¹ In certain instances, a potent word like "human" works well as a descriptor (more on this below), but in so many cases people need to resort to "AI-free," or "non-AI," or "human-generated," or even spelling out something like "I wrote this without the use of AI."² As I see it, this unprecedented presence of AI calls for us to deploy a newly coined word to signify its absence. A positive, lively word that doesn't center AI and that is broadly applicable.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Zuzai.
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