“As far as I know, the problem of wildly derivative outputs has not gone away.”
Our reading:
As far as Marcus knows, the problem of generative AI producing wildly derivative outputs has not gone away.
Assessment: Can’t be checked
What happened
Not graded on evidence
Outcome: Can’t be checked
An opinion, a recommendation, or too vague to test. Listed, not scored.
Evidence up to . Checked .
Why
Marcus explicitly qualified the statement with 'As far as I know.' Grading whether derivative outputs objectively persisted would replace his statement with a stronger one. Preserving the qualification leaves no independently verifiable scoring condition in the available records. This is not a finding that his concern was unfounded.
Caveats
- This disposition does not assess the separate, unqualified proposition that generative models still produced derivative outputs.
Evidence (0 items)
Claims like this aren’t scored, so there is no evidence to show.
How we judged it
- Kind of claim
- Observation
- Deadline
- None given. We don’t add one.
Conditions
- as far as I know (their words)
Where we had to interpret
- The qualification limits the statement to Marcus's knowledge at publication. It must remain part of the claim.
- External examples could establish that derivative outputs persisted, but would not independently establish the boundaries of Marcus's knowledge.
- No unqualified persistence claim is substituted for the supplied wording.
We don’t grade claims like this. We only check the quote and who said it.
What would settle it
Independent contemporaneous evidence establishing the relevant limits of Marcus's knowledge, or an explicitly authorized assessment of a separately stated objective claim.
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Full record
Source and dates
Marcus on AI, The bad news: AI is going pretty much as I expected, paragraph 8.
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We read this wording on 2026-10-28. The post may have been edited after 2025-09-05.
Where it was said (1)
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: Marcus on AI, The bad news: AI is going pretty much as I expected
As far as I know, the problem of wildly derivative outputs has not gone away.
- Where
- paragraph 8
- Published
- 2025-09-05
- We read it
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
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