“OpenAI is more than likely charging only a small percentage of what it likely costs to run its models, and can only continue to do so if it is able to continually raise more venture funding than has ever been raised and continue to receive preferential pricing from Microsoft, a company that recently mentioned that it considers OpenAI a competitor.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
OpenAI likely charges only a small fraction of its running costs and can only continue if it keeps raising record venture funding and receiving Microsoft's preferential pricing.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, The Subprime AI Crisis, paragraph 74.
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- Evidence
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- Kind
- Observation
- 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
- can continue only with record fundraising and Microsoft preferential pricing (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- can continue only with record fundraising and Microsoft preferential pricing
Our interpretation
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Current assessment
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Outcome: Can’t be checked
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- Evidence
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- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Assessment recorded
- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
Rationale
Not checked against evidence. Two independent screens, one from each provider, both found this stated as a chance or a possibility, or at medium or low confidence.
Limitations
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Evidence (0 items)
No evidence was searched for. Both screens found that public evidence could not settle this claim.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the sources this register covers.
: Where's Your Ed At, The Subprime AI Crisis
OpenAI is more than likely charging only a small percentage of what it likely costs to run its models, and can only continue to do so if it is able to continually raise more venture funding than has ever been raised and continue to receive preferential pricing from Microsoft, a company that recently mentioned that it considers OpenAI a competitor.
- Where
- paragraph 74
- Published
- 2024-09-16
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment wyea-subprimeai-f997e8-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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