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Claims by Gary Marcus and Ed Zitron. Deadlines are judged as of 2026-10-29.

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  1. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “For one thing, in the expert population, the effect is in the predicted direction for all five tasks (ideation, acquisition, magnification, formulation, and release).”

    What happened: Joining the complete response file to e1 confirms higher expert threshold-success rates with model access on every task. The date identifies the published dataset being assessed, not an inferred experiment date. (OpenAI, )

  2. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “In fact, if you simply collapsed all the measurements of accuracy, and did the single most obvious test here, a simple t-test, the results would (as Footnote C implies) be significant.”

    What happened: Summing within participants and comparing the two assignment groups gives a positive difference with two-sided p = 0.01908. This remains significant while respecting repeated measurements. (OpenAI, )

  3. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Any fool can simply eyeball these data and see that in virtually every condition, people who have access both to the internet and LLMs (darker bars) are more accurate than people without (lighter bars).”

    What happened: Nine task differences are positive. Student acquisition is the sole exception, with a difference of −1.08 points. (OpenAI, )

  4. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “At present, we do not know.”

  5. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “It is shocking that neither OpenAI nor the media noted this (they also did not discuss in any detail one other paper that reached a somewhat similar conclusion, by Kevin Esvelt’s lab).”

  6. Assessment: ContradictedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “As a journal reviewer, I would also note that they reported neither the p value they obtained, nor the test of statistical significance they applied; in a competent peer-reviewed journal, that’s a no-no.”

    What happened: The methods paragraph names one-sided t-tests and the Mann–Whitney check. The applied tests were therefore identified. (OpenAI, )

  7. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Not every image looks like this, but it’s pretty clear after a few minutes experimentation from a friend that (a) Bard makes fantastic images but that (b) it is drawing from copyrighted sources and (c) as capable as the other systems Reid Southen and I looked at in returning derivative artwork that appears to infringe without attribution.”

  8. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Gary Marcus is standing firmly by his prediction that 2024 will be the year of Generative AI litigation.”

    What happened: The review documents a substantial active litigation landscape by midyear. Its count includes earlier filings and must not be presented as 25 new lawsuits in 2024. (Copyright Alliance, )

  9. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Ed Zitron

    “We are beset with spam calls, spam texts, spam messages on social networks, notifications from apps we forgot we installed, search results that are stuffed with results built specifically to manipulate search engines, emails from companies we’ve bought one thing from, popular home pages full of AI-spun misinformation and algorithms that try and hurt and manipulate us.”

  10. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “What unifies all of the above is that current systems are good at local coherence, between words, and between pixels, but not at lining up their outputs with a global comprehension of the world.”

    What happened: The authors describe the contemporary contrast between linguistic fluency and explanatory inconsistency. Their experiments concern explanation consistency, not a comprehensive measurement of factual world knowledge. (arXiv; Yanda Chen and colleagues, )

  11. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “By my count (helped considerably by my sharp-eyed followers on X), there are at least ten ways, many subtle, in which the image neither matches the prompt nor what we would expect from the world.”

  12. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Hallucinations come from systems exploding data into tiny bits, and then reconstructing them without having a mechanism like a fact-checker to assess the coherence of those reconstructed bits.”

  13. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Near-plagiarism comes from reconstructing those bits in statistically probable ways, without having a mechanism like an originality-assessor to investigate the novelty of the reconstruction.”

  14. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “It has become apparent that large language models, OpenAI’s core technology, sometimes leak private data, and that this problem has not been resolved; hallucinations too remain problematic.”

    What happened: This is the researchers’ dated assessment of the continuing vulnerability, not a claim that their experiments occurred on publication day. They explain why a word-repetition filter would address one exploit without eliminating memorization and divergence. (Authors of Scalable Extraction of Training Data from (Production) Language Models, )

  15. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “And candor of the company as a whole will remain an issue.”

    What happened: Vox compared leadership claims of ignorance about equity-related exit provisions with signed company documents. This establishes a substantive corporate candor dispute, without conclusively proving what each executive knew. (Vox, )

  16. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Third, at least so far OpenAI lacks both profits and a moat.”

  17. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “OpenAI’s unusual relationship with Microsoft is sure to receive considerable scrutiny.”

    What happened: The decision describes examination of internal documents, information-request responses and the partnership’s commercial operation. Its analysis covers governance, compute supply and intellectual-property rights, including developments after the forecast. (UK Competition and Markets Authority, )

  18. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Many companies are still in wait and see mode, trying the software but not putting into full-time production.”

  19. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Such errors clearly aren’t disappearing any time soon.”

  20. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Examples like these, in which ChatGPT confidently generates an image that does not actually meet requirements, are nicely complement the visual hallucinations that Ernest Davis and I reported here in October, in which visual ChatGPT misinterpreted various images:”

  21. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “We can of course expect related problems of discomprehension in efforts to use these systems to address copyright issues, as I wrote earlier this week.”

    What happened: The public report documents a completed evaluation using generative vision-language models for copyright detection. The event date is the release of that empirical report; individual testing dates are not specified. (arXiv; Xu and colleagues, )

  22. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “It might be trivial to do it for the most popular characters, presented in the most canonical ways, but getting it right for all copyright materials is an entirely different matter.”

  23. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Reid spent about 45 minutes looking into this earlier today (why not more? see below) with images generated by Midjourney, and it quickly became apparent that using ChatGPT as intern to trace down sources is, well, pretty intermittent.”

  24. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “More than that, GenAI developers won’t get off so easy, and lawyers looking at copyright infringement will still have plenty of work to do.”

    What happened: The amended-complaint ruling kept Copyright Act claims alive against the image-generation defendants after an earlier dismissal round. It establishes continued contested litigation, not ultimate infringement liability. (U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, )

  25. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Ed Zitron

    “The podcast has also struggled to retain its initial momentum, with viewership tumbling from 160,000 views on the first episode to around 40,000 an episode for the last 9 months, with the exception of the George Carlin special which sits at 55,000 views at the time of writing.”

  26. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Notice, too, that Katie asked Bing “are they original?”, and Bing, untruthfully, but with a cozy emoticon, answered in the affirmative.”

  27. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Fundamentally, virtually any guardrail has to thread a needle between the Scylla of being too restrictive and Charybdis of being too permissive. None thus far have done this effectively.”

  28. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Any one example can be filtered out, but there are too many examples, and current systems are too erratic to reliably get things right.”

  29. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Guardrail builders generally wind up playing whack-a-mole.”

  30. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Other prompts still elicited apparent copyright infringements, where new filters did not suffice.”

  31. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Since that would violate the Berne Convention and infuriate every “content provider” (from individual artists and writers to major studios and publishers) ever, we hope and expect that this exemption will not be granted.”

  32. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “The opposite problem happens too; guardrails can wind up too permissive. This is still happening over a year into the chatbot revolution.”

    What happened: The investigator reports continuing toxicity failures in other LLMs as of this update. The same account says Google had improved PaLM 2's safeguards, so it does not establish that the original PaLM 2 failures remained reproducible. (Montreal AI Ethics Institute; research summary by Ashique KhudaBukhsh, )

  33. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “It’s likewise a flaw that that current AI cannot learn without a tendency to inadvertently regurgitate big bits of text and images that look uncannily like their sources, but not a logical necessity.”

  34. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “LLMs may eventually be replaced by better technologies, but for now, they aren’t going anywhere, even if some of the commercial purveyors go out of business.”

  35. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “But in the end, nobody will create good, fresh, new content anymore, and the internet will start eating its own tail. We will will all suffer in the end, fed a mediocre stew of regurgitate.”

  36. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “OpenAI’s lobbying campaign, simply put, is based on a false dichotomy (give everything to us free or we will die)—and also a threat: either we get to use all the existing IP we want for free, or you won’t get to generative AI anymore.”

  37. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “And you know what, OpenAI knows this argument is bullshit; they know that licensing is a possibility, because they have been running around working on licensing deals.”

    What happened: AP directly confirms an actual licensing arrangement before Marcus’s post. Entering the agreement demonstrates institutional awareness of licensing as an available option. (The Associated Press, )

  38. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “To begin with, the threat is empty: open source LLMs are already out in the wild, and a large number of people know how to build them.”

    What happened: The announcement establishes a pre-post public model release and explicitly provides local-use instructions. This supports technical availability independent of OpenAI’s service. (Mistral AI, )

  39. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “And what Southen and I showed is that generative image programs are prone to exactly the same kind of regurgitation that is at issue.”

    What happened: The experiment establishes generation of memorized training images. This directly supports the technical meaning of regurgitation, without establishing infringement or a typical-use frequency. (arXiv; Nicholas Carlini and colleagues, )

  40. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Generative AI systems are fully capable of producing materials that infringe on copyright.”

  41. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “OpenAI, despite its name, has not been transparent about what it has been trained on.”

    What happened: The system card describes broad source categories and filtering methods but does not identify the underlying training corpus or its substantive source inventory. This supports limited transparency, not an assertion that OpenAI disclosed nothing. (OpenAI; reproduced at dalle-3.pages.dev, )

  42. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “And worse, infringement can happen even the user isn’t looking to infringe and doesn’t mention any character or film by name:”

  43. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Unless and until somebody can invent a new architecture that can reliably track provenance of generative text and/or generative images, infringement – often not at the request of the user — will continue.”

  44. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “A good system should give the user a manifest of sources; current systems don’t.”

    What happened: The authors describe the state at their December 2023 writing date and identify the missing provenance relationships needed for attribution. This supports the contextual reading about underlying source manifests, although it is a research synthesis rather than an exhaustive product audit. (An MIT Exploration of Generative AI; author-hosted copy, )

  45. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Generative AI systems like DALL-E and ChatGPT have been trained on copyrighted materials;”

    What happened: The announcement confirms that licensed contributor imagery had already been used to train DALL-E by this date. Licensed copyrighted material satisfies the claim regardless of whether its use was authorized. (Shutterstock, )

  46. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “OpenAI’s image software (which we accessed through Bing) is perfectly capable of verbatim and near-verbatim repetition of sources as well.”

  47. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “They do not inform users when they do so.”

  48. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Before the day was done, Midjourney retaliated - by revoking Southen’s privileges and wiping his history.”

  49. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “The output was not marked as being directly premised on copyrighted work”

  50. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “It’s also hardly the first time AI is helped with mathematics.”

    What happened: This firsthand report documents AI contributing to mathematical research two years before FunSearch. That is sufficient to establish the claimed predecessor. (DeepMind, )

  51. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “There is no evidence that the problem was heretofore “unsolvable””

    What happened: This predating result demonstrates constructive progress on the same lower-bound problem. It supports treating the task as an open optimization question rather than an established impossibility. (arXiv / Fred Tyrrell, )

  52. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Human mathematicians had to write problem-specific code for each separate mathematical problem.”

    What happened: The specification section requires a coded evaluator and an initial program. Figure 2 supplies different evaluation and surrounding code for cap sets and bin packing, supporting the reading that humans supplied task-specific code. (Nature / Google DeepMind author manuscript, )

  53. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “But the big tech executives that would need to deal with it aren’t happy, and are doing their best after the fact to undermine a hard-won compromise that involved years of negotiations and multiple all-nighters.”

  54. Assessment: ContradictedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “It came in the middle of May 2022.”

    What happened: The November 2021 compromise text explicitly mentions general-purpose AI and contains a dedicated Article 52a. This predates the claimed first mention in May 2022. (Council of the European Union, Slovenian Presidency, )

  55. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “The phrase “Added late in the text” — which tries to paint the regulation of foundation models as some kind of sneaky last minute move — is a massive, massive misrepresentation.”

    What happened: The May 2022 proposal contains general-purpose AI duties in Article 4b and expressly exempts smaller enterprises from them. Proposed regulation therefore existed well before December 2023, although this does not date every provision in the eventual agreement. (Council of the European Union, French Presidency; copy hosted by the Future of Life Institute, )

  56. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “What I proposed then, as a replacement to the Turing Test, was a Comprehension Challenge; even now, no software would be able to meet that challenge.”

  57. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Dubious Google Gemini videos aside, nobody is close to passing that yet.”

  58. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “ELIZA (built in 1965-1966) beat GPT 3.5.”

    What happened: The same results paragraph reports ELIZA at 27%, above both GPT-3.5 configurations. These are overall judged-human rates in the experiment Marcus cited. (arXiv; Cameron Jones and Benjamin Bergen, )

  59. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “And, sorry Sam, when you actually look at the data. humans are still ahead.”

    What happened: The section reports a 63% human success rate and 41% for the strongest GPT-4 prompt. All other tested AI configurations scored lower. (arXiv; Cameron Jones and Benjamin Bergen, )

  60. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “The whole project was quietly dropped a year or two later.”

    What happened: The next sentence dates the move to the preceding October, and the reproduced company statement says further robotics research stopped. This establishes October 2020 rather than treating the July 2021 reporting date as the shutdown date. (TechCrunch, )

  61. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “What we are going to see, in the fullness of time, I promise you, is that Gemini is more or less in the same ball park as GPT-4, handy for a bunch of things, but untethered in reality, still with dicey, unpredictable reasoning, and a very limited understanding of the world.”

  62. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Regular readers will recall how that turned out: the Rubik’s cube was instrumented with sensors, and not straight off the shelf, and what worked for the Rubik’s cube in the demo video didn’t turn out have a whole lot of application in the real world.”

  63. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Note that Gates and Altman have both been dropping hints, and GPT-5 isn’t here after a year despite immense commercial desire.”

    What happened: The sentence reports Gates predicting initial stagnation. The surrounding account also anticipates later improvements, so his skepticism was qualified. (Handelsblatt, )

  64. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “From a commercial standpoint GPT-4 is no longer unique.”

  65. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Ed Zitron

    “Already, despite only being available to a handful of users, Grok has fabricated a story about a British MP being expelled from Parliament, presumably confusing the ouster of disgraced New York congressman George Santos with a separate and unrelated story from across the Atlantic.”

  66. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Ed Zitron

    “Musk rushed a Large Language Model to market in a few months, one where bigotry is a feature not a bug, and has potentially trained it on the garbled musings of people that he has incentivized to fill its data source with nonsense.”

  67. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Ed Zitron

    “And that’s acknowledging the fact that LLMs — even those developed a legion of well-resourced and well-fed PHDs, like GPT-4, and based on a well-curated dataset of high-quality material — have a habit of hallucinating facts, figures, and events.”

    What happened: OpenAI acknowledges factual hallucinations in GPT-4. Its accompanying report of improvement over earlier models does not remove that recurring limitation. (OpenAI, )

  68. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Ed Zitron

    “Musk is already using Grok as a marketing vehicle for X Premium+’s $16-a-month subscription, and if he actually offers it to every subscriber, there’s no way in hell that this is a profitable transaction.”

  69. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Ed Zitron

    “If Musk launches Grok to every Premium+ subscriber, it creates an inverse revenue model where the site becomes less profitable as its products become more popular.”

  70. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “But that’s exactly what’s happening: Messrs. LeCun and Zuckerberg seem to have talked it out, and decided what’s best (in their not-so-humble opinion) for all of us.”

    What happened: Identifies authority. (Fortune, )

  71. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “So far, Big Tech rather than the US government is calling the shots.”

  72. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “But virtually all existing laws were written before AI was really on the scene, and so very few really envision how AI changes things.”

  73. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Its pioneering, world-leading AI Act is on the ropes.”

    What happened: The article reports a negotiating walkout and interviews Kai Zenner, who put timely passage at a 50–50 chance after the impasse. It also records unresolved disagreements described by co-rapporteur Tudorache, supporting a serious threat to agreement. (IAPP, )

  74. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Big tech wants the world to revolve around its new plaything, Generative AI (combined total revenue so far a few billion dollars, just a tiny tiny fraction of the economy), and to exempt it from any regulation.”

  75. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Actually, there was one clear overall winner: Tegmark. As much as Ernie Davis and I utterly disagreed with Tegmark’s more technical map of the world/LLM world models paper a few weeks ago, pretty much every word he said this week about regulation was true.”

  76. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “And I do mean “we”; what the EU decides will affect all of us.”

    What happened: In this section Anthropic expressly attributes watermarking to EU AI Act compliance and states that it applies the policy globally. This establishes a concrete worldwide development-policy consequence, while leaving rollout timing and future regional approaches open. (Anthropic, )

  77. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Bing,powered by Dall-E 3, was an even bigger loser, drawing “Hinton vs LeCun vs Ng vs Tegmark, boxing” with four boxers not boxing, not one of them looking remotely like any of our heroes:”

  78. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Eventually, we will be able to build machines that help us reason critically, overcome human bias, and objectively, the way that we have calculators that spit out just the facts, without confabulation.”

  79. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “But “breakthroughs” rarely turn to be general to live up to initial rosy expectations. Often advances work in some contexts, not otherwise.”

  80. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “getting their algorithm to work for one object (which, cheesily, turned out to be a special Cube instrumented with sensors and LEDS, unlike a Rubik’s cube you’d buy in a store) in carefully controlled lab circumstances hardly guaranteed that the solution would work more broadly in the complex open-ended real world.”

    What happened: The preceding discussion identifies arbitrary-object interaction as a long-term goal and a completely standard cube as unfinished work. Sections 3 and 7 document the laboratory apparatus and sensor-equipped Giiker experiments, rather than an established solution for open-ended manipulation. (OpenAI; original report hosted by Matthias Plappert, )

  81. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “AV’s still aren’t general enough that you can just plop down a car that was tuned in pilot studies in Menlo Park, SF and Arizona and expect it to drive gracefully and safely in Sicily or Mumbai.”

    What happened: Waymo describes initial manual driving, subsequent specialist feedback, virtual evaluation of the new location, and refinements from local experience. This directly supports the need for preparation before expecting dependable operation in unfamiliar places. (Waymo, )

  82. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “It autocompletes sentences, some of those completions are true given that the training data is so vast, and some aren’t, given that the training data aren’t infinite.”

  83. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “It’s fun to compare the two—they have so many differences—even though neither can be trusted.”

    What happened: The preserved table reports hallucinations in 3.0% of GPT-4 summaries and 3.5% of GPT-3.5 Turbo summaries, despite providing source documents. These recurring errors support independent checking; the percentages apply to this summarization test, not all GPT answers. (Vectara, )

  84. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “The real value was always the people, not the IP, not the data, not the customer list, not the infrastructure.”

  85. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “The whole nonprofit-hybrid model, introduced in 2019 (the company was originally pure non-profit) was always a ticking time bomb, because the people trying to make money were never going to have a perfect relationship with those in the nonprofit that were charged with keeping the world safe.”

  86. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “OpenAI’s strength has been in scaling up an existing paradigm (Transformers) that was developed elsewhere (Google), not developing new paradigms.”

    What happened: The original paper introduces the Transformer and lists Google Brain and Google Research affiliations, alongside a University of Toronto affiliation. This supports the Google research provenance without implying that every author had only a Google affiliation. (Ashish Vaswani and colleagues / arXiv, )

  87. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “And the overriding nonprofit mission was always going to be at odds with a pure for profit play.”

    What happened: The section gives the nonprofit board control and says investors and employees accept the Charter's priority even at the expense of their financial stakes. Those explicit constraints support the structural reading of conflict with a purely profit-driven investment. (OpenAI, )

  88. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “There has never been a solution to the hallucination problem, and it’s not clear that there will be until we find a new paradigm, as Altman himself partly acknowledged last week, when he did his best Gary Marcus impression.”

    What happened: OpenAI acknowledged residual factual hallucinations in GPT-4. The surrounding discussion reports improvements, not elimination. (OpenAI, )

  89. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “Large language models alone were never going to solve the alignment problem.”

  90. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “and then, perhaps in keeping with my surmise that Sam’s bluff was called, negotiations broke down altogether.”

    What happened: The report directly supports the failure of the negotiations at the Sunday-night leadership transition. It does not establish the proposed bluff explanation. (TIME, )

  91. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Ed Zitron

    “Artificial intelligence has become one of the few reliable roads to capital in the current economy, with venture capitalists sinking more than a quarter of their startup dollars into AI-related companies in 2023.”

    What happened: Crunchbase directly reports a share above 25% for American startups. Its accompanying analysis reports increasing AI investment amid a broad funding contraction, supporting the relative-resilience reading. (Crunchbase News, )

  92. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Ed Zitron

    “OpenAI was already in a crisis before Altman was fired.”

  93. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Ed Zitron

    “With AI development an incredibly costly business, OpenAI can’t afford a tightening of the capital floodgates.”

  94. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Ed Zitron

    “Altman will be fine. OpenAI, however, is an entirely different question.”

    What happened: OpenAI officially confirmed Altman's return to the same chief executive role. This resolves the career setback under the stated ordinary reading. (OpenAI, )

  95. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    Ed Zitron

    “Shear doesn’t have much of an AI background, and has never faced the regulatory and legal challenges that threaten OpenAI and the wider AI sector.”

  96. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “We pretty obviously don’t have a say.”

    What happened: The article describes exclusive director election and removal rights and board control over changes to those rules. This supports the inference that the public lacked a formal role; contemporaneous reporting is used because the available primary bylaws are an older filing. (WIRED, )

  97. Assessment: MixedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “The spirit of the original arrangement was that everything that the for-profit did was supposed to be in the service of the non-profit. A board with no financial interest was supposed to look out for humanity.”

    What held: The announcement describes the structure's humanitarian purpose. Its background paragraph expressly says the 2019 restructuring preserved the nonprofit's mission, governance, and oversight. (OpenAI, )

    What did not: The original rules permitted some directors to hold financial stakes, contradicting an entirely disinterested-board requirement. The following sentence reserved decisions involving conflicts between investors and the nonprofit mission to directors without stakes. (OpenAI, )

  98. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “All signs are that those financially-interested stakeholders will quickly emerge victorious. (Arguably, they already have).”

    What happened: The announced settlement provided both Altman's return and a replacement board two days after the post. November 22 is used conservatively for availability because the search record and page display differ across the overnight publication boundary. (Reuters, republished by Yahoo Finance, )

  99. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “In reality, things have gone quite differently. When the nonprofit Board felt it was prudent (for undisclosed reasons) to remove Altman, per the goals of the nonprofit that they were trying to represent, at the risk of potentially devastating commercial potential, those with a stake in the nominally subordinate for-profit (both employees and investors) quickly set to work to push out the board and to undo its decisions.”

    What happened: The report describes Murati negotiating Altman's return and investors led by Microsoft and Thrive demanding that directors step down. It establishes coordinated executive and investor opposition during the period claimed. (Bloomberg, republished by Yahoo Finance, )

  100. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    Gary Marcus

    “The fact that the governance of one of the most visible AI companies in the world can change literally overnight”

    What happened: The dated announcement establishes the CEO transition. Its body makes Murati's appointment effective immediately and also announces Altman's departure from the board and Brockman's departure as chair, establishing a same-day change in governing personnel. (OpenAI, )