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Gary Marcus Marcus on AI Published

BREAKING: Sam Altman’s greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him

We recorded 7 claims from this post. 2 were checked against evidence. 5 can’t be checked. 3 more are held. Read the post at its source.

Claims from this post (7)

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.

  1. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “And, now at long last, the world sees what the board saw, and what I saw (and what Karen Hao saw): having someone running a company with that much power to affect the world who is not consistently candid is not a good idea.”

    What we tested: A person who is not consistently candid, such as Altman, should not be running a company as powerful as OpenAI.

  2. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “Millions of people, literally, are angry; many feel betrayed.”

    What we tested: Millions of people are angry and many feel betrayed by Altman/OpenAI.

  3. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “In reality, Altman was never really all that interested in AI for the “benefit of humanity.” Mostly he was interested in Sam. And money, and deals.”

    What we tested: Altman was never really all that interested in AI for the benefit of humanity; mostly he was interested in himself, and in money and deals.

  4. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    “The public anger on social media is growing fast. A major boycott is afoot:”

    What we tested: Public anger at OpenAI on social media is growing fast and a major boycott is underway.

    What happened: The reporter describes rapidly spreading boycott calls in the days leading up to the March 3 protest. This supports qualitative growth in social-media opposition, although it supplies no platform-wide count. (Business Insider, republished by AOL, )

  5. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “And all this was entirely predictable. Altman is bad news.”

    What we tested: The backlash against Altman was entirely predictable; Altman is bad news.

  6. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “History will judge those who stay at his company.”

    What we tested: History will judge negatively those who stay at OpenAI.

  7. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “Anyone who wants to work on LLMs can work elsewhere. Anyone who wants to use LLMs should go elsewhere.”

    What we tested: People who want to use LLMs should use providers other than OpenAI, and those who want to work on LLMs can work elsewhere.

Held from this post (3)

These records did not pass every check, so nothing about them is published. Held is not a finding.