“The paradigm we have right now is so data-greedy that the entire public internet doesn’t seem to be enough.”
Our reading:
The current AI paradigm needs so much data that the entire public internet does not seem to be enough.
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
The sentence expresses an impression and leaves 'enough' undefined. Contemporary scarcity research and licensing activity provide context, but neither supplies the missing criterion. Scoring it would require inventing a development goal and treating 'doesn't seem' as a firm assertion. That would change what Marcus said.
Caveats
- This finding concerns the sentence's testability, not whether concerns about training-data demand were reasonable.
- The contextual evidence does not prove either sufficiency or insufficiency of the entire public internet.
Evidence (2 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.
Where we had to interpret
- 'Doesn't seem' expresses a hedged judgment rather than a categorical assertion of insufficiency.
- The sentence supplies no task, capability level, development goal, or other standard for 'enough'.
- Seeking licensed data or forecasting future shortages cannot supply the missing standard.
- The wording concerns the speaker's present impression in September 2023; it is not a forecast with a deadline.
We don’t grade claims like this. We only check the quote and who said it.
What would settle it
A separate, firmer claim specifying the systems, intended capability, and meaning of data sufficiency could be assessed. Additional evidence alone cannot repair this sentence's missing criterion.
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Full record
Source and dates
Marcus on AI, The dirty underbelly of AI, paragraph 10.
- Said
- We read the source
- live page, full text, public
- Evidence up to
- Checked
We read this wording on 2026-10-29. The post may have been edited after 2023-09-07.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the posts we read.
: Marcus on AI, The dirty underbelly of AI
The paradigm we have right now is so data-greedy that the entire public internet doesn’t seem to be enough.
- Where
- paragraph 10
- Published
- 2023-09-07
- We read it
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Versions
- Current: Can’t be checked. Evidence up to 2026-10-28.
What happened to this record
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A reviewer said our test wasn’t fair to what was actually said.