When is it OK to use AI?
May 18, 2026 Trillion-dollar companies are begging us to use their AI chatbots. But AI leads to cognitive decline, psychosis, loss of job skills, widening inequality, greater surveillance, and vast environmental damage. Show Notes By Jen Sorensen • Gary Marcus on the growing AI backlash (May 4, 2026): Generative AI has been a net negative for society.
- ▪May 18, 2026 Trillion-dollar companies are begging us to use their AI chatbots.
- ▪But AI leads to cognitive decline, psychosis, loss of job skills, widening inequality, greater surveillance, and vast environmental damage.
- ▪Show Notes By Jen Sorensen • Gary Marcus on the growing AI backlash (May 4, 2026): Generative AI has been a net negative for society.
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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.
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| Original publisher | Techtonic with Mark Hurst on WFMU |
| Canonical URL | https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2026-05-18-when-is-it-ok-to-use-ai/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:51:56 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-03T19:55:43.284Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-03T19:55:44.008Z |
| 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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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.
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When is it OK to use AI? May 18, 2026 Trillion-dollar companies are begging us to use their AI chatbots. But AI leads to cognitive decline, psychosis, loss of job skills, widening inequality, greater surveillance, and vast environmental damage. Is it ever OK to use AI? Show Notes By Jen Sorensen • Gary Marcus on the growing AI backlash (May 4, 2026): Generative AI has been a net negative for society. GenAI has been undermining secondary and college education, opening up mass surveillance, increasing disinformation, delusions, impersonation, phishing, and other forms of cybercrime, nonconsensual deep fake porn, bias in employment and other domains, and economic disparity, drowning the world in slop and unwanted, over-leveraged environment-damaging data centers that risk causing a…
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