“A lot of what you've written about AI is the effects of if we automate these tasks, but it feels like they aren't even successfully automating anything.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
It feels like generative AI companies aren't even successfully automating anything.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Evidence as of
Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, Rot Economics - An Interview With MIT's Daron Acemoglu, paragraph 28.
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Conditions
- it feels like (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- it feels like
- they aren't even successfully automating anything
Our interpretation
- The exact sentence expresses a tentative impression rather than an unqualified claim that successful automation does not exist.
- Removing 'it feels like' would create a stronger proposition than the speaker explicitly committed to. The adjacent categorical statements are assessed separately.
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- 2026-10-28.7
Rationale
On July 24, 2024, Zitron said “it feels like they aren't even successfully automating anything” [wyea-rot-economics-an-interview-with-mits-daron-acemoglu-3c76f3-o1]. The phrase “it feels like” qualifies the statement as an impression, so the selected wording is not adjudicable as a categorical claim that successful automation does not exist [wyea-rot-economics-an-interview-with-mits-daron-acemoglu-3c76f3-o1].
Limitations
- Deployment evidence could test the implied factual premise, but could not establish or falsify the stated subjective impression.
- The selected sentence does not define “they” or a standard for “successfully” [wyea-rot-economics-an-interview-with-mits-daron-acemoglu-3c76f3-o1].
- This assessment does not cover adjacent categorical statements or determine whether successful automation existed.
Evidence (0 items)
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Where it was said (1)
Said once in the sources this register covers.
: Where's Your Ed At, Rot Economics - An Interview With MIT's Daron Acemoglu
A lot of what you've written about AI is the effects of if we automate these tasks, but it feels like they aren't even successfully automating anything.
- Where
- paragraph 28
- Published
- 2024-07-24
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment wyea-rot-economics-an-interview-with-mits-daron-acemoglu-3c76f3-a2: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Evidence as of 2026-10-28. Public date not recorded.
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