Botshit Gone Wild
We recorded 4 claims from this post. 2 were checked against evidence. 2 can’t be checked. 3 more are held. Read the post at its source.
Claims from this post (4)
In the order they appear in the post. Each quotation is the speaker’s words in this post. A label such as “Supported” or “Can’t be checked” is the claim’s current assessment; its page has the evidence and the reasons.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“We are immersed in a sea of bullshit.”
What we tested: Society is saturated with AI-generated falsehoods.
Assessment: SupportedSaid
“Item 4: GenAI brings racist tropes to life.”
What we tested: Generative AI is being used to produce content that depicts racist tropes.
What happened: Documents AI-generated videos full of racist tropes spreading widely on TikTok just before the post. (The Verge, )
Assessment: SupportedSaid
“Item 5, from the NYT last week, in article called A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy: we are starting to see misinformation play out on the world stage:”
What we tested: We are starting to see misinformation, in the AI context of the NYT article he cites, play out on the world stage.
What happened: The NYT reports a flood of AI-made fake media of candidates in elections up to June 2025. (Benton Institute (excerpting The New York Times), )
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“AI well and could truly could be a world-changing positive force, but Generative AI, I am not so sure.”
What we tested: AI could truly be a world-changing positive force, but the author is not so sure that generative AI could be.
Held from this post (3)
These records did not pass every check, so nothing about them is published. Held is not a finding.
- The criteria are ambiguous. Our reading, not assessed: Human use of untruthful LLM-generated content (botshit) has become increasingly abundant over time.
- The two reviews read the claim differently
- Attribution is uncertain