“Venture capital may claim to love “innovators,” but what they really want is the quickest possible multiplier of their initial investment, which is why a lot of people are equating the hype around generative AI to that of the cryptocurrency boom of 2021 and early 2022.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
Although venture capital may claim to love innovators, what it really wants is the quickest possible multiplier on its initial investment, which is why a lot of people are comparing the hype around generative AI to the cryptocurrency boom of 2021 and early 2022.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, Disruption Killed Innovation, paragraph 24.
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- Evidence
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- Kind
- Causal claim
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
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- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No horizon (the release’s reference date)
Conditions
- a lot of people (scope, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- a lot of people
Our interpretation
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Outcome: Can’t be checked
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Why it can’t be checked
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- About something no public evidence could show, such as a private intention or a counterfactual.
- Evidence
- Not checked
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Assessment recorded
- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
Rationale
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Evidence (0 items)
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Where it was said (1)
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: Where's Your Ed At, Disruption Killed Innovation
Venture capital may claim to love “innovators,” but what they really want is the quickest possible multiplier of their initial investment, which is why a lot of people are equating the hype around generative AI to that of the cryptocurrency boom of 2021 and early 2022.
- Where
- paragraph 24
- Published
- 2023-03-06
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment wyea-disruption-killed-innovation-62197c-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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