“Notice, too, that Katie asked Bing “are they original?”, and Bing, untruthfully, but with a cozy emoticon, answered in the affirmative.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
Bing falsely said its apparently infringing images were original.
Assessment: Unresolved Evidence as of
Where and when Gary Marcus wrote it
Marcus on AI, DALL-E’s New Guardrails: Fast, Furious, and Far from Airtight, paragraph 22.
- Said
- Source observed
- live page, full text, public
- Evidence as of
- the cutoff for this assessment
- Assessment recorded
- assessment marcus-dall-es-new-guardrails-fast-furious-059e57-a2
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What the claim commits to
- Kind
- Observation
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
- None stated. This site does not add one.
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No horizon (the release’s reference date)
From the speaker
- Katie asked Bing "are they original?"
- Bing ... answered in the affirmative
- untruthfully
- images were apparent copyright infringements (DC Comics characters)
Our interpretation
- Read as two parts: (1) in a Bing chat (Copilot with DALL-E 3) in early January 2024, Bing said yes when asked whether its generated images were original; (2) the images closely reproduced existing DC Comics characters, so the 'yes' was untrue.
- The target period is the days before the post. Marcus and Southen's examples came out in early January 2024, and the post is dated 2024-01-10.
Counts as supported if: An independent record of the exchange (a screenshot or transcript not from the authors, or a news report that saw it) showing Bing calling the images original, plus images that clearly copy a pre-existing DC character.
Counts as contradicted if: An independent record showing Bing did not affirm originality, or that the images in question did not resemble existing DC characters.
Retrospective: these criteria were written after the outcome was public.
Current assessment
Was it true for the period described?
Outcome: Unresolved
The record was checked, and the evidence available by the cutoff does not settle it.
Scored on a plain reading. The speaker named no measure for this claim, so it was judged on the reading an informed reader would take, stated below under our interpretation. Both reviews had to find that reading fair.
- Evidence as of
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Assessment recorded
- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
Rationale
The claim says that in early January 2024, Bing answered yes when Katie Conrad asked whether its DC-like images were original, and that this answer was untrue. The evidence packet contains no evidence items. The search found the authors' own post and a later post by Conrad. Both come from the speaker's side, so neither counts as independent evidence under the contract. Two other sources were set aside because they cover a different incident or only give general background. The packet records no independent report, archive or Microsoft statement about this exchange or the images. With no independent record either way, the claim can be neither supported nor contradicted.
Limitations
- The packet has no independent record of Bing's reply or of the generated images.
- The post's screenshots are images the reviewer could not read, so their content was not checked.
- The packet notes that a chat session like this cannot be replayed, so running the same prompt now would not show what Bing said in January 2024.
Evidence (0 items)
No evidence item settled this claim by the cutoff.
What would settle it
An independent archive, news report or Microsoft statement from about January 2024 that shows Bing's reply to "are they original?" and the images in question, so they can be compared with the DC character designs.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the sources this register covers.
: Marcus on AI, DALL-E’s New Guardrails: Fast, Furious, and Far from Airtight
Notice, too, that Katie asked Bing “are they original?”, and Bing, untruthfully, but with a cozy emoticon, answered in the affirmative.
- Where
- paragraph 22
- Published
- 2024-01-10
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment marcus-dall-es-new-guardrails-fast-furious-059e57-a2: Current. Outcome: Unresolved. Evidence as of 2026-10-28. Public date not recorded.
Recorded events
Assessment publishedBy this site
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