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We recorded 5 claims from this post. 2 were checked against evidence. 3 can’t be checked. 8 more are held. Read the post at its source.

Claims from this post (5)

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

    “Generative AI would never have been any kind of “movement” or “industry” if the media had approached it from the perspective of a consumer and said “okay, sure, but what does this actually do?” and the same goes for both the metaverse and cryptocurrency.”

    What we tested: Generative AI would never have become any kind of 'movement' or 'industry' if the media had approached it from a consumer's perspective and asked what it actually does, and the same goes for the metaverse and cryptocurrency.

  2. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “To this day I still can’t find a single journalist who has a cogent explanation as to why ChatGPT is big, other than the fact that lots of people use it.”

    What we tested: To this day, Zitron says he still can't find a single journalist with a cogent explanation of why ChatGPT is big, other than the fact that lots of people use it.

  3. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    “There were multiple other companies doing exactly what GPT-3 did months before ChatGPT launched.”

    What we tested: Multiple other companies were doing exactly what GPT-3 did months before ChatGPT launched.

    What happened: The announcement offers Jurassic-1 through an open-beta API and web environment and describes text generation, question answering, and classification. It establishes one other company's comparable functional offering well before the cutoff. (AI21 Labs, )

  4. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “It only caught fire because the media insisted it did so.”

    What we tested: ChatGPT took off only because the media insisted that it had.

  5. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “They’re everywhere, and they are real, meaningful stories, ones that are more important than Anthropic’s Dario Amodei farting into a microphone about how AI will be smarter than humans at some point!”

    What we tested: Everyday problems with consumer software are real, meaningful stories that are more important than Dario Amodei talking about how AI will be smarter than humans at some point.

Held from this post (8)

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