“And whereas in 2016, when Microsoft voluntarily pulled Tay after it began spouting racist invective, today, the company is locked in a high-stakes battle with Google that seems to be leading both companies towards aggressively releasing technologies that have not been well vetted.”
Our reading:
The Microsoft–Google competition appears to be leading both companies to aggressively release AI technologies that have not been well vetted.
Assessment: Can’t be checked
What happened
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Outcome: Can’t be checked
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Why
TIME reports that Microsoft's CEO said on February 7, 2023, that the company would “move fast” in competition with Google [e1]. Google announced access to Bard for trusted testers on February 6, 2023, and plans to combine external feedback with internal testing before wider availability [e2]. These records provide context for the tentative impression that competition “seems to be leading” both companies toward releases that “have not been well vetted”; they cannot make that impression a defined causal claim that can be confirmed or refuted [e1, e2].
Caveats
- The wording defines neither adequate vetting nor aggressive release, and specifies no required causal contribution from competition.
- The evidence does not establish how competitive pressure changed either company's testing decisions.
- Google's stated testing process does not independently establish adequate vetting.
Evidence (2 items)
Claims like this aren’t scored, so there is no evidence to show.
How we judged it
- Kind of claim
- Causal claim
- Deadline
- None given. We don’t add one.
Where we had to interpret
- The assessed proposition is the tentative causal judgment about Microsoft and Google, not the separate historical reference to Tay.
- The context concerns deployment decisions in February 2023.
- The words 'seems to be leading' express an impression. Neither a required causal contribution nor a standard for adequate vetting is specified. Turning this into a firm causal allegation would strengthen the claim.
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Full record
Source and dates
Marcus on AI, Is it time to hit the pause button on AI?, paragraph 4.
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We read this wording on 2026-10-29. The post may have been edited after 2023-02-26.
Where it was said (1)
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: Marcus on AI, Is it time to hit the pause button on AI?
And whereas in 2016, when Microsoft voluntarily pulled Tay after it began spouting racist invective, today, the company is locked in a high-stakes battle with Google that seems to be leading both companies towards aggressively releasing technologies that have not been well vetted.
- Where
- paragraph 4
- Published
- 2023-02-26
- We read it
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
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