AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making Published on July 18, 2026 Note: This has been cross-posted to my company's blog, in case you think there is some use in sharing with someone in a format that looks more authoritative. I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it. This has ranged from people on the ground in niche service industries to executives at Fortune 500 companies1.
- ▪AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making Published on July 18, 2026 Note: This has been cross-posted to my company's blog, in case you think there is some use in sharing with someone in a format that looks more authoritative.
- ▪I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it.
- ▪This has ranged from people on the ground in niche service industries to executives at Fortune 500 companies1.
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| Original publisher | Mataroa |
| Canonical URL | https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/#fnref:3 |
| Publication time | Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:29:19 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-19T06:42:27.850Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-19T06:42:27.850Z |
| 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 | bbn1k_-pZp3Z |
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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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| 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 |
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AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making Published on July 18, 2026 Note: This has been cross-posted to my company's blog, in case you think there is some use in sharing with someone in a format that looks more authoritative. Link here. I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it. I can’t name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.
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