Pundit ClaimsAI claims by Gary Marcus and Ed Zitron, with the evidence

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  2. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

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    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

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    Held record wyea-never-forget-what-theyve-done-7e701c

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  5. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Some big tech companies controlling LLMs are well-positioned to become the tech industry's next landlord.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-monopoly-money-f43148-a1.

  6. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    The generative AI hype cycle is in a slow, painful collapse as of August 2024.

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    Assessment wyea-monopoly-money-c9e975-a1.

  7. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

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    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

  8. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Generative AI will likely prove to be a transient fad.

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    Assessment wyea-monopoly-money-acf4ee-2-a1.

  9. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

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    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  10. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Without a new growth product (and generative AI is not it), Meta and Google may not be able to sustain their companies past the next decade.

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    Assessment wyea-monopoly-money-7e6890-2-a1.

  11. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Ed hypothesizes that big tech's goal is to make customers pay for their models rather than run their own models on the companies' cloud services.

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    Assessment wyea-monopoly-money-65273b-a1.

  12. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Big tech's push toward generative AI is a deliberate attempt to create a monopoly of LLMs owned by Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Meta.

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    Assessment wyea-monopoly-money-2cbf28-a1.

  13. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-measures-d6818e

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  14. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    OpenAI bought Io to raise its valuation and secure larger funding rounds, not to build anything.

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    Assessment wyea-measures-ab4725-a1.

  15. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

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    The anthropic screen finds the claim checkable, so it must be graded.

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    Held record wyea-measures-68b3f7

    The anthropic screen finds the claim checkable, so it must be graded.

  17. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-measures-676240

    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

  18. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    OpenAI is very unlikely to launch its custom AI chip with Broadcom in the next year.

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    Assessment wyea-measures-665920-a1.

  19. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Microsoft should concede nothing to OpenAI in negotiations over its for-profit conversion.

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    Assessment wyea-measures-4b0f48-a1.

  20. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    OpenAI is a loser of a company run by a career liar that cannot ship product, only further iterations of an increasingly commoditized series of large language models.

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    Assessment wyea-measures-3af341-a1.

  22. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    OpenAI paying for Io in stock suggests it has little cash to spare, and it is unclear how SoftBank will afford its next OpenAI funding tranche.

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    Assessment wyea-measures-13a765-a1.

  23. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Even one of OpenAI's planned projects (100M-unit device, Stargate Texas and UAE online, Broadcom chip) would be a stretch within the next year.

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    Assessment wyea-measures-0448b7-a1.

  24. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-managing-up-ee35d0

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  26. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    ChatGPT, like Sam Altman, can only loosely approximate the output requested of it.

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    Assessment wyea-managing-up-22c51e-a1.

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    Held record wyea-managing-up-227831

    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

  28. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Because he is divorced from actual production, Altman has only generated unsustainable AI hype and vague promises that OpenAI's workers likely know cannot be kept.

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    Assessment wyea-managing-up-1265e6-a1.

  29. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    ChatGPT would have been a much smaller deal if Google had had any interest in turning Google Search into a product that truly answered queries.

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    Assessment wyea-make-fun-of-them-fd5e5d-a1.

  31. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Sam Altman has only a tangential understanding of the AI technology OpenAI is building.

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    Assessment wyea-make-fun-of-them-d4be64-a1.

  32. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    ChatGPT's allegedly 500 million weekly active users against, by the last count, 15.5 million paying subscribers is an absolutely putrid conversion rate.

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    Assessment wyea-make-fun-of-them-cf573c-a1.

  33. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-make-fun-of-them-c9ef24

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  34. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Journalists who covered Anthropic's blackmail stories uncritically should be ashamed.

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    Assessment wyea-make-fun-of-them-b88935-a1.

  35. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-make-fun-of-them-afd332

    The anthropic screen finds the claim checkable, so it must be graded.

  36. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Generative AI doesn't do enough, is really not cool at all, and people are being forced to use it.

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    Assessment wyea-make-fun-of-them-a89eee-a1.

  37. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    However big ChatGPT is, a product with hundreds of millions of users that constantly gets answers wrong is genuinely worrying for society.

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    Assessment wyea-make-fun-of-them-9222ca-a1.

  38. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-make-fun-of-them-8b2050

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  39. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Sam Altman kind of sounds like a huge idiot.

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    Assessment wyea-make-fun-of-them-78f120-a1.

  40. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    However many people use ChatGPT, it just isn't that revolutionary.

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    Assessment wyea-make-fun-of-them-78b3c9-a1.

  41. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    The OpenAI/Jony Ive hardware venture is likely to be heavily delayed.

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    Assessment wyea-make-fun-of-them-56892d-a1.

  43. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-make-fun-of-them-4843f2

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  45. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    People should start mocking AI and tech leaders.

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    Assessment wyea-make-fun-of-them-3d9d16-a1.

  47. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Nadella, Altman, Amodei, Cook and Jassy should be mocked or at least questioned vigorously.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-make-fun-of-them-3d4e50-2-a1.

  48. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Generative AI models are dangerous and chaotic, built with little intention or regard for the future, just like the rest of big tech's products.

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    Assessment wyea-make-fun-of-them-112272-a1.

  49. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-make-fun-of-them-0df84c

    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

  50. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Big Tech's combined AI revenue most likely won't reach the $32 billion projected revenue of the smartwatch industry.

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    Assessment wyea-make-fun-of-them-0d4d44-a1.

  51. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    It is somewhat true that generative AI is generating basically no value.

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    Assessment wyea-make-fun-of-them-063d5f-a1.

  52. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Media should not cover OpenAI and other big tech companies' products as remarkable and perfect, because those products are worse and more frustrating than ever.

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    Assessment wyea-lost-in-the-future-d9a11f-a1.

  55. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    OpenAI's $157 billion valuation is not a reason for it to receive more coverage or be taken more seriously.

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    Assessment wyea-lost-in-the-future-322333-2-a1.

  56. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Microsoft's roughly $3.25 billion a quarter in AI revenue is absolutely pathetic.

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    Assessment wyea-longcon-fcb60e-a1.

  57. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-longcon-f5d019

    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

  58. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Putting aside the hype and anecdotes, generative AI has languished in the same place for several months even by his kindest estimate, though really for years.

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    Assessment wyea-longcon-f08002-a1.

  60. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Dario Amodei, like Sam Altman, is a liar, a crook, a carnival barker and a charlatan, and the things he promises are equal parts ridiculous and offensive.

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    Assessment wyea-longcon-d3e4e4-a1.

  62. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-longcon-c7bd63

    The anthropic screen finds the claim checkable, so it must be graded.

  63. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-longcon-c726b2

    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

  64. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Generative AI has no killer app or iPhone moment despite massive investment.

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    Assessment wyea-longcon-be61a8-a1.

  65. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-longcon-a8e795

    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

  66. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Deep Research's writing is quintessential LLM copy, soulless and almost, but not quite, right.

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    Assessment wyea-longcon-a34d07-a1.

  67. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-longcon-9ceb4b

    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

  68. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    GPT-4.5 will probably do something quite similar to GPT-4o.

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    Assessment wyea-longcon-98e8f2-a1.

  69. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Anthropic very likely burned more money than OpenAI in 2024, and both are atrocious at business.

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    Assessment wyea-longcon-91e9df-a1.

  70. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-longcon-8f0ab4

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  71. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Deep Research produces low-quality research slop with no clear audience.

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    Assessment wyea-longcon-783e71-a1.

  73. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-longcon-5a5a3d

    The anthropic screen doubts the attribution.

  74. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Generative AI models know nothing and cannot truly understand the content they read or browse.

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    Assessment wyea-longcon-4de7f9-a1.

  75. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Generative AI is a financial, ecological and social time bomb damaging tech's relationship with society.

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    Assessment wyea-longcon-453ef0-a1.

  76. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Claims by CEOs like Benioff about AI replacing workforces are made to pump stocks, not reflecting real products.

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    Assessment wyea-longcon-3a0965-a1.

  77. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-longcon-353ce0

    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

  78. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    The January 2025 Similarweb monthly visitor numbers for Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity and Claude suggest that these products aren't very popular at all.

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    Assessment wyea-longcon-245aa9-a1.

  79. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-longcon-20721b

    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

  82. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-let-ai-burn-dff9d5

    The anthropic screen finds the claim checkable, so it must be graded.

  83. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    The AI industry is a sham built on manufactured consent and should not be protected under any circumstance.

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    Assessment wyea-let-ai-burn-dd70b9-a1.

  84. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    AI companies must stand on their own and be allowed to die if their business models fail.

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    Assessment wyea-let-ai-burn-d87a5b-a1.

  85. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    No tool or product in history sold with such hysteria and aggressive monocultural force has ever turned out to be anything more than a grift.

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    Assessment wyea-let-ai-burn-d82bbb-a1.

  86. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Nothing, absolutely nothing, about what generative AI has created so far justifies even a fraction of its financial and infrastructural cost.

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    Assessment wyea-let-ai-burn-cb8f4f-a1.

  88. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-let-ai-burn-c1d528

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  89. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-let-ai-burn-c1d287

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  90. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-let-ai-burn-bbaa2e

    The anthropic screen finds the claim checkable, so it must be graded.

  91. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-let-ai-burn-b657ed

    The anthropic screen finds the claim checkable, so it must be graded.

  92. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Governments do not need a sovereign AI strategy, sovereign AI wealth fund, or push for US AI leadership in LLMs.

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    Assessment wyea-let-ai-burn-b3772d-a1.

  93. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    The AI industry, unlike the financial industry, is inessential to the economy and its relevance is only as large as its hype.

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    Assessment wyea-let-ai-burn-a37db1-a1.

  94. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Unlike the dot-com era, LLM demand appears artificial outside OpenAI and Anthropic, who can't pay without unlimited VC funding.

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    Assessment wyea-let-ai-burn-a35859-a1.

  95. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    People who pay for ChatGPT or Claude on a subscription basis do so because they can get $30 to $40 of compute for a dollar.

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    Assessment wyea-let-ai-burn-986b58-a1.

  96. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    LLMs are more expensive and significantly less useful than human beings.

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    Assessment wyea-let-ai-burn-951a24-a1.

  97. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    The vast majority of AI startups are both over-valued and have no foreseeable path to acquisition or a public offering.

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    Assessment wyea-let-ai-burn-91eebb-a1.

  98. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    When the bubble bursts, the AI industry must be allowed to collapse without rescue.

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    Assessment wyea-let-ai-burn-8431fe-a1.

  100. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    This era, the AI bubble era, must end, and all failures must be allowed to fail.

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    Assessment wyea-let-ai-burn-554ac9-a1.

  101. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    The AI industry should receive no bailouts, handouts, special treatment, tax breaks, CHIPS act support, or sovereign wealth fund.

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    Assessment wyea-let-ai-burn-24c290-a1.

  102. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    SoftBank might receive some kind of bailout because of its size and Japanese government pension fund ownership.

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    Assessment wyea-let-ai-burn-17347a-a1.

  103. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-let-ai-burn-1372ad

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  104. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    LLMs are not artificial intelligence.

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    Assessment wyea-i-will-never-respect-a-website-e9712a-a1.

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    Held record wyea-i-will-never-respect-a-website-d1aa38

    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

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    Held record wyea-i-will-never-respect-a-website-b3ff72

    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

  110. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-i-will-never-respect-a-website-aa2ef4

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  111. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Altman and Amodei must immediately stop overstating LLM capabilities.

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    Assessment wyea-i-will-never-respect-a-website-9511cf-a1.

  112. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    LLMs do not think or have knowledge, and they fall apart or become exponentially more expensive on more complicated tasks.

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    Assessment wyea-i-will-never-respect-a-website-69f9a1-a1.

  115. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Apart from crypto, no previous tech revolution inspired such defensiveness, tribalism and obfuscation as AI.

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    Assessment wyea-i-will-never-respect-a-website-572219-a1.

  116. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    People claiming others are being left behind by AI should have to show the setup effort required and why AI beats doing it themselves.

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  117. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-i-will-never-respect-a-website-493b83

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  118. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    People who credit LLMs with letting them analyze massive datasets are likely really using Python.

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    Assessment wyea-i-will-never-respect-a-website-490069-a1.

  119. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-i-will-never-respect-a-website-48796e

    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

  121. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    LLMs are excellent digital busyboxes for people who want to come up with a way to work differently rather than actually doing work.

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    Assessment wyea-i-will-never-respect-a-website-36103e-a1.

  122. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-i-will-never-respect-a-website-2dd19f

    The openai screen doubts the attribution.

  123. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    The author guesses OpenAI had about 2GW of capacity at end of 2025 and Anthropic about 1GW.

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    Assessment wyea-i-will-never-respect-a-website-28fe6d-a1.

  124. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Anthropic and OpenAI should have priced and restricted services in line with actual costs.

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    Assessment wyea-i-will-never-respect-a-website-261c62-a1.

  125. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Developer use of LLMs would be dramatically lower without the media publicity campaign and corporate pressure.

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    Assessment wyea-i-will-never-respect-a-website-24c2cc-a1.

  126. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    AI executives should stop talking about AGI and describe ChatGPT as the regular software it is.

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    Assessment wyea-i-will-never-respect-a-website-1c024d-a1.

  127. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Amodei should stop discussing AI eliminating 50% of white-collar jobs and Altman should stop predicting superintelligence timelines.

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    Assessment wyea-i-will-never-respect-a-website-1a51b0-a1.

  128. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-i-will-never-respect-a-website-1a3106

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  129. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-hyperscale-normalization-fa0631

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  131. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    The AI industry's apparent importance is entirely due to media hype, subsidized subscriptions, VC and hyperscaler funding and debt.

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    Assessment wyea-hyperscale-normalization-d68727-a1.

  132. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    CoreWeave is a bad company that only exists because of the simple, systemic belief that if the right numbers are going up, everything is fine.

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    Assessment wyea-hyperscale-normalization-cbba7a-a1.

  133. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Nobody has a compelling explanation for why more AI data centers are needed, and there is nothing 'anti-progress' about opposing them.

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  134. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-hyperscale-normalization-81eb7a

    The anthropic screen finds the claim checkable, so it must be graded.

  135. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    The common claim that bubbles always form and leave value afterward is not really true historically, and certainly is not true of the current AI era.

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    Assessment wyea-hyperscale-normalization-7f75b7-a1.

  138. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    There is nothing rational about valuing Cognition at $26 billion, let alone at the $40 billion it is allegedly raising at now.

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    Assessment wyea-hyperscale-normalization-66dd1c-a1.

  140. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Multi-billion-dollar data center deals will not be built for years, but NVIDIA will likely book the associated revenue immediately.

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    Assessment wyea-hyperscale-normalization-5e4ab6-a1.

  141. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    All AI bubble hype is an attempt to rebrand old things as new.

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  142. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    NVIDIA's investments helping counterparties raise debt are intended to artificially inflate its revenues, comparable to Enron.

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    Assessment wyea-hyperscale-normalization-17f12f-a1.

  143. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    There is a good chance that Anthropic and OpenAI dominate the capital expenditures of Amazon and Microsoft.

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    Assessment wyea-how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster-fb9b07-a1.

  144. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster-ca5d5e

    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

  145. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Things in the AI industry sure look like they're beginning to collapse, though he is not making claims about 'the bubble bursting' quite yet.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster-b92145-a1.

  146. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    OpenAI is deliberately using weekly active users so that it doesn't have to publish its monthly active users, which he believes would be higher.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster-9c29c5-a1.

  147. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    OpenAI should have actively corrected misreported claims that GPT-4 hired a TaskRabbit worker.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster-996691-a1.

  148. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Nobody knows whether AGI is possible, and anyone who claims to know is lying.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster-8b028f-a1.

  149. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    The AI 2027 scenario is fiction with no forecasting value.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster-6b5475-a1.

  150. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    LLMs have no intellect and are not intelligent; they are promoted by people who are easily impressed or have an emotional or financial stake in them.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster-5d110a-a1.

  151. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Because of effectively unlimited resources, the Large Language Model era has been sped through and is nearing its end.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster-546c9b-a1.

  152. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Generative AI is not in its early days.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster-52cf41-a1.

  153. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Although marketed as transformational, generative AI has not transformed anything he has seen.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster-4e63c1-a1.

  155. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster-3b6bdf

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  156. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster-2e502d

    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

  157. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster-0dfc6b

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  158. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Barring a miracle, the generative AI industry is about to enter an era of desperation.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-godot-isnt-making-it-f88d71-a1.

  159. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    If Musk delays OpenAI's for-profit conversion, it could be a terminal blow for OpenAI.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-godot-isnt-making-it-f83b72-a1.

  160. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-godot-isnt-making-it-e2d0e4

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  161. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-godot-isnt-making-it-cbf84f

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  162. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-godot-isnt-making-it-bbed7f

    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

  163. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Sam Altman's claims that GPT will lead to AGI are lies.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-godot-isnt-making-it-baea04-a1.

  164. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-godot-isnt-making-it-b10225

    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

  165. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Nothing has really come out of the generative AI movement.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-godot-isnt-making-it-acd460-a1.

  166. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    It is very, very bad that NVIDIA is having such significant difficulties with thermal performance on its Blackwell racks.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-godot-isnt-making-it-a337ed-a1.

  167. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-godot-isnt-making-it-9f6e91

    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

  168. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-godot-isnt-making-it-9d34cd

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  169. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-godot-isnt-making-it-985096

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  170. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-godot-isnt-making-it-8302a9

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  171. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-godot-isnt-making-it-7a3b6a

    The openai screen doubts the attribution.

  172. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Generative AI is not a revolution but a product of a growth-obsessed tech industry.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-godot-isnt-making-it-764579-a1.

  173. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Agents may be the last generative AI product, and their cost won't be sustainable for most businesses.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-godot-isnt-making-it-6f18b6-a1.

  174. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Even if NVIDIA fixes cooling within its racks, it is uncertain the fix will work at scale as hundreds of thousands of Blackwell GPUs ship from H1 2025.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-godot-isnt-making-it-650147-a1.

  175. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-godot-isnt-making-it-5c0207

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  176. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Given its cooling struggles, it is unclear NVIDIA can practically launch Blackwell, let alone maintain a yearly chip cadence.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-godot-isnt-making-it-3ee879-a1.

  177. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-godot-isnt-making-it-1a5a75

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  178. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Microsoft's capital expenditures will likely exceed $60 billion in 2024, making its $10B AI revenue run-rate pathetic.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-godot-isnt-making-it-1a1ea8-a1.

  179. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-godot-isnt-making-it-15d67f

    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

  180. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse-f955b1

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  181. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    If NVIDIA is selling as many GPUs as it claims, it is likely booking sales before customers actually take delivery.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse-ea6e14-a1.

  182. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Cursor is probably not gross margin positive as reported.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse-e08657-a1.

  183. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    AI companies subsidized subscriptions to grow their subscriber numbers, and he thinks they assumed things would somehow get cheaper.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse-bb5780-a1.

  184. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse-a93fc9

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  185. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Anthropic is a con sustained by hype.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse-a932ee-a1.

  186. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Microsoft's halt to new paid GitHub Copilot signups is likely because, per his source, it intends to move paid customers to token-based billing.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse-9dde08-a1.

  187. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse-97563f

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  188. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Deals like Anthropic's agreement to spend $100 billion on AWS as part of Amazon's investment in it should not be legal.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse-8dac77-a1.

  189. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Microsoft will probably formally announce token-based billing for GitHub Copilot this week.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse-82ffcf-a1.

  190. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    AI does not provide even an iota of the benefits, economic or otherwise, that would justify its ruinous costs.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse-7b73ac-a1.

  191. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse-725e9e

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  192. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    The AI industry is likely hitting, or has already hit, the physical limits of available AI compute capacity.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse-51591b-a1.

  193. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse-4be9e4

    The anthropic screen finds the claim checkable, so it must be graded.

  194. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Anthropic should stop accepting new customers until it resolves its capacity issues.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse-355ae4-a1.

  195. HeldBy this siteEd Zitron

    Held record wyea-four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse-3170ed

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  198. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    When the deck of cards collapses, it will not be an apocalypse but just a brutal realignment for a tech industry that has needed one.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-false-prophet-e6a1de-a1.

  199. Assessment publishedBy this siteEd Zitron

    Society will turn on the tech industry because of its contempt for users.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment wyea-false-prophet-e3036f-a1.