“There was a broken image link, and I went so fast I neglected to mention the personally salient fact that Bing had lied about me, claiming that I believe that “Bing’s AI was more accurate and reliable than Bard”, when I never said any such thing.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
Bing's chatbot falsely claimed that Marcus believes Bing's AI is more accurate and reliable than Bard.
Assessment: Unresolved Evidence as of
Where and when Gary Marcus wrote it
Marcus on AI, Two frightening things before breakfast, paragraph 45.
- Said
- Source observed
- live page, full text, public
- Evidence as of
- the cutoff for this assessment
- Assessment recorded
- assessment marcus-two-frightening-things-before-breakfast-5252b4-a1
We recorded 8 claims from this post. See every claim from this post.
The wording above is the version this site observed on 2026-10-29. The source may have been edited after 2023-02-16. This page does not claim the wording was captured then.
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
- Bing had lied about me
- Bing’s AI was more accurate and reliable than Bard
- when I never said any such thing
- Feb 15, 2023
Our interpretation
- Lied means generated a false attribution; the claim does not require establishing intent to deceive.
- The target is the particular Bing exchange shared on February 15, 2023.
- Support requires verifying both Bing's actual output and the attribution's falsity. Marcus's denial alone cannot establish either.
Counts as supported if: An authenticated conversation record or independent contemporaneous report shows Bing attributing the stated comparative belief to Marcus, with adequate evidence that the attribution misrepresented his position.
Counts as contradicted if: The authenticated exchange does not contain that attribution, or a verified contemporaneous statement by Marcus supports the belief Bing attributed to him.
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 allegation is checkable, but the original user's post could not be recovered through read_page, and searches did not locate independent verification of this exchange. Marcus's account and denial cannot substitute for the missing conversation record. This is an evidence gap, not evidence that the allegation is false.
Limitations
- The screenshot may survive elsewhere, but it was not available in the retrieved records.
- General examples of Bing making false statements would not establish this specific event.
Evidence (0 items)
No evidence item settled this claim by the cutoff.
What would settle it
A readable archived conversation or independently authenticated screenshot, including the prompt and relevant response, plus verification of the source material Bing used to attribute the belief.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the sources this register covers.
: Marcus on AI, Two frightening things before breakfast
There was a broken image link, and I went so fast I neglected to mention the personally salient fact that Bing had lied about me, claiming that I believe that “Bing’s AI was more accurate and reliable than Bard”, when I never said any such thing.
- Where
- paragraph 45
- Published
- 2023-02-16
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment marcus-two-frightening-things-before-breakfast-5252b4-a1: Current. Outcome: Unresolved. Evidence as of 2026-10-28. Public date not recorded.
Recorded events
Assessment publishedBy this site
First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.
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