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Disruption Killed Innovation

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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.

  1. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “Snap, for whatever reason, has decided that the best allocation of their resources was to add a ChatGPT-powered AI bot to Snapchat to “recommend birthday gifts for your BFF” or “plan a hiking trip for a long weekend,” features that don’t really make sense in a chat app. Or, for that matter, at all.”

    What we tested: The features of Snap's ChatGPT-powered Snapchat bot, such as recommending birthday gifts and planning hiking trips, don't really make sense in a chat app, or at all.

  2. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “Meta, a company that predominantly makes money through advertising, has created an entirely new product team under a former Apple VP built to “[quickly] integrate the latest [generative AI] technologies into its products,” as well as open-sourcing their own large language model “to help researchers advance their work in this subfield of AI,” and crucially appear to Wall Street as a company that was doing something with generative AI.”

    What we tested: A key purpose of Meta's generative AI team and open-source LLM is to make Meta appear to Wall Street to be doing something with generative AI.

  3. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “And Benioff’s new push into the nebulous world of adding AI to a CRM for the fourth or fifth time is likely to placate a push by activist investor Elliott Management and to try and stabilize a stock that has dropped from $210 to $167 in the last year.”

    What we tested: Benioff's latest push to add AI to Salesforce's CRM is likely meant to placate activist investor Elliott Management and stabilize Salesforce's falling stock.

  4. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “The reason that none of these products seem to ever have a firm connection to any real use case or product is that these announcements are not for customers.”

    What we tested: The reason Salesforce's AI and blockchain product announcements never seem to have a firm connection to any real use case or product is that the announcements are not meant for customers.

  5. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “Salesforce doesn’t need to make a better CRM, or actually integrate AI in a useful way, because Marc Benioff is able to march onto CNBC and tell Jim Cramer that he wrote a book and businesses “must value stakeholders as much as shareholders.””

    What we tested: Salesforce doesn't need to make a better CRM or actually integrate AI in a useful way, because Marc Benioff can go on CNBC and tell Jim Cramer that he wrote a book and that businesses must value stakeholders as much as shareholders.

  6. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “Venture capital may claim to love “innovators,” but what they really want is the quickest possible multiplier of their initial investment, which is why a lot of people are equating the hype around generative AI to that of the cryptocurrency boom of 2021 and early 2022.”

    What we tested: Although venture capital may claim to love innovators, what it really wants is the quickest possible multiplier on its initial investment, which is why a lot of people are comparing the hype around generative AI to the cryptocurrency boom of 2021 and early 2022.

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