“PS Microsoft Bing completely flubbed, 4/4, “people going yuck towards Generative AI”.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
Microsoft Bing completely flubbed the prompt "people going yuck towards Generative AI", 4 out of 4 results.
Assessment: Unresolved Evidence as of
Where and when Gary Marcus wrote it
Marcus on AI, Most people don’t think GenAI has improved their productivity, paragraph 10.
- Said
- Source observed
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- Evidence as of
- the cutoff for this assessment
- Assessment recorded
- assessment marcus-most-people-dont-think-genai-has-32cdc1-a2
We recorded 2 claims from this post. See every claim from this post.
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What the claim commits to
- Kind
- Observation
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
- None stated. This site does not add one.
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No horizon (the release’s reference date)
From the speaker
- Microsoft Bing
- completely flubbed
- 4/4
- prompt 'people going yuck towards Generative AI'
Our interpretation
- Read as: when Marcus gave Bing's image generator the prompt 'people going yuck towards Generative AI' around the post date, none of the four images it returned showed people reacting with disgust toward generative AI.
- Target period is July 2024, the time of the post and the reported attempt.
Counts as supported if: An independent record of the four Bing outputs for that prompt shows that none depicted people expressing disgust toward generative AI.
Counts as contradicted if: An independent record of the four outputs shows that one or more did depict the request reasonably well.
Retrospective: these criteria were written after the outcome was public.
Current assessment
Was it true for the period described?
Outcome: Unresolved
The record was checked, and the evidence available by the cutoff does not settle it.
Scored on a plain reading. The speaker named no measure for this claim, so it was judged on the reading an informed reader would take, stated below under our interpretation. Both reviews had to find that reading fair.
- Evidence as of
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Assessment recorded
- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
Rationale
The claim is that Bing's image generator 'completely flubbed, 4/4' on the prompt 'people going yuck towards Generative AI'. Marcus made it in a post dated 29 July 2024. The evidence packet contains no evidence items. One search was run, and it found no independent copy or report of the four outputs. The packet considered the speaker's post and did not use it, because his own material cannot show that he was right. The packet also notes that image generation is random and Bing's image model has changed since 2024, so a new test could not reproduce the original outputs. With nothing independent on record, the evidence cannot show whether any of the four images matched the prompt.
Limitations
- Only one search query was run, so an independent record could still exist that this search missed.
- No images were inspected. The text version of the post contains no image content.
- The evidence does not show what the four images looked like, or whether the post's screenshot is the only record of them.
Evidence (0 items)
No evidence item settled this claim by the cutoff.
What would settle it
An independent archive, copy or third-party report of the four images Bing returned for the prompt 'people going yuck towards Generative AI' around July 2024, showing whether any of them depicted people expressing disgust toward generative AI.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the sources this register covers.
: Marcus on AI, Most people don’t think GenAI has improved their productivity
PS Microsoft Bing completely flubbed, 4/4, “people going yuck towards Generative AI”.
- Where
- paragraph 10
- Published
- 2024-07-29
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment marcus-most-people-dont-think-genai-has-32cdc1-a2: Current. Outcome: Unresolved. Evidence as of 2026-10-28. Public date not recorded.
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