The secret behind Meta’s Muse
We recorded 6 claims from this post. 4 were checked against evidence. 2 can’t be checked. 5 more are held. Read the post at its source.
Claims from this post (6)
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: SupportedSaid
Observation
“Alas, it never really took off.”
Our reading: Facebook's Project M agent never really took off.
No horizon Evidence as of
Limitation: The evidence does not supply a numerical threshold for 'took off.'
Assessment: SupportedSaid
Observation
“I am not sure what the other Marcus had in mind, exactly, by “a lot more”, but the project ended in sorrow in January 2018, canceled less than three years after it was launched :”
Our reading: Facebook M was canceled in January 2018, less than three years after launch.
No horizon Evidence as of
Limitation: The cancellation report establishes the announced decision and scheduled closure, not a retrospective check that service ended on January 19.
Assessment: SupportedSaid
Observation
“No more than 30% of requests served by AI!”
Our reading: No more than 30% of Facebook M's requests were handled by AI.
No horizon Evidence as of
Limitation: The numerical evidence rests on one unnamed source's estimate.
Assessment: SupportedSaid
Observation
“Fast-forward to today, and basically Meta Muse is trying to do exactly what Facebook M tried to do, restaurant reservations, theatre tickets and so on.”
Our reading: Meta Muse is basically trying to do exactly what Facebook M tried to do, such as restaurant reservations and theatre tickets.
No horizon Evidence as of
Limitation: Support depends on reading basically as substantial task overlap and theatre tickets as an example of event booking.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Forecast
“Maybe it will work this time, maybe it won’t. I can’t really say for sure.”
Our reading: It is uncertain whether Meta Muse will work where Facebook M failed.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Rhetoric
“Dude just keeps making the same “mistakes”over and over.”
Our reading: Zuckerberg keeps making the same "mistakes" over and over.
No horizon
Qualifier: "mistakes" in scare quotes
Held from this post (5)
These records did not pass every check, so nothing about them is published. Held is not a finding.
- Attribution is uncertain
- Attribution is uncertain
- The two reviews read the claim differently
- Attribution is uncertain
- The two reviews reached different assessments. Our reading, not assessed: Facebook M was expensive to run, so it reached only about 10,000 users and was never scaled to the general public.