Never Forgive Them
We recorded 9 claims from this post. 3 were checked against evidence. 6 can’t be checked. 4 more are held. Read the post at its source.
Claims from this post (9)
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: UnresolvedSaid
“bizarre AI slop is dominating feeds with Mark Zuckerberg promising that there’s more to come”
What we tested: Bizarre AI-generated slop is dominating Facebook feeds.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“This has irreparably damaged the internet in ways I believe few fully understand.”
What we tested: The flood of AI-generated content has irreparably damaged the internet.
Assessment: UnresolvedSaid
“AI-generated images and machine-generated text is everywhere, and it’s impossible to avoid, as there is no reliable way to determine the provenance of a piece of content — with one exception, namely the considered scrutiny of a human.”
What we tested: AI-generated images and machine-generated text are everywhere, and they are impossible to avoid because there is no reliable way to determine a piece of content's provenance, except the considered scrutiny of a human.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“These companies unleashed generative AI on the world — or, in the case of Microsoft, facilitated its ascendency — without any consideration of what that would mean for the Internet as an ecosystem.”
What we tested: Google and Microsoft released or facilitated generative AI without considering its effect on the internet ecosystem.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“Sam Altman is a con artist, a liar, and a sleazy carnival barker who would burn our planet to the ground, steal from millions of people and burn billions of dollars in pursuit of power, and I believe the same can be said of people like Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Mustafa Suleyman of Microsoft.”
What we tested: Sam Altman is a con artist, a liar, and a sleazy carnival barker who would burn the planet to the ground, steal from millions of people, and burn billions of dollars in pursuit of power.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“Sam Altman is a con artist, a liar, and a sleazy carnival barker who would burn our planet to the ground, steal from millions of people and burn billions of dollars in pursuit of power, and I believe the same can be said of people like Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Mustafa Suleyman of Microsoft.”
What we tested: Zitron believes the same can be said of people like Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Mustafa Suleyman of Microsoft: that they are con artists, liars, and sleazy carnival barkers who would burn the planet to the ground, steal from millions of people, and burn billions of dollars in pursuit of power.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“You talking about the truth behind generative AI, or the harms of Facebook, or the gratuitous destruction of Google Search will change things, because these people are unprepared for a public that knows both what they’ve done and their sickening, loathsome, selfish and greedy intentions.”
What we tested: Public discussion of the truth behind generative AI and other tech harms will change things because tech leaders are unprepared for an informed public.
Assessment: SupportedSaid
“Be the person who tells people that Sam Altman burns $5 billion a year on unsustainable software that destroys the environment and is built upon the large-scale larceny of creative works because he's desperate for power.”
What we tested: OpenAI's software is built upon the large-scale theft of creative works.
What happened: The filed memorandum quotes an internal admission connecting pirated material to GPT-3 training. This is documentary evidence presented by plaintiffs, not a judicial determination that the training infringed copyright. (Class plaintiffs in In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation, )
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
“Be the person who tells people that Sam Altman burns $5 billion a year on unsustainable software that destroys the environment and is built upon the large-scale larceny of creative works because he's desperate for power.”
What we tested: Readers should tell others that Sam Altman burns $5 billion a year on unsustainable, environmentally destructive software built on stolen creative works.
Held from this post (4)
These records did not pass every check, so nothing about them is published. Held is not a finding.
- The two reviews read the claim differently
- The two reviews reached different assessments. Our reading, not assessed: Big tech companies will be forced to change through public pressure and knowledge of their deeds.
- The criteria are ambiguous. Our reading, not assessed: The generative AI industry is over-leveraged, has no real path to profitability, and is burning billions of dollars and harming the environment.
- The two reviews reached different assessments. Our reading, not assessed: Sam Altman burns $5 billion a year on unsustainable software that destroys the environment and is built upon the large-scale larceny of creative works, because he is desperate for power.