“I am particularly concerned that wholesale, plausible misinformation may create an atmosphere of mistrust, potentially undermining democracy; I also worry that large language models might also be weaponized to trick users as parts of large-scale (perhaps unprecedentedly large scale) cybercrime operations.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
LLMs might be weaponized to trick users in large-scale, perhaps unprecedentedly large, cybercrime operations.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Gary Marcus wrote it
Marcus on AI, The first known chatbot associated death, paragraph 15.
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- Source observed
- live page, full text, public
- Evidence
- Not checkedboth screens found it cannot be checked
- Assessment recorded
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What the claim commits to
- Kind
- Forecast
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
- “near-term”
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
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Conditions
- near-term (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- near-term
- near-term
Our interpretation
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Outcome: Can’t be checked
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- Evidence
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- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Assessment recorded
- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
Rationale
Not checked against evidence. Two independent screens, one from each provider, both found this stated as a chance or a possibility, or at medium or low confidence.
Limitations
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Evidence (0 items)
No evidence was searched for. Both screens found that public evidence could not settle this claim.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the sources this register covers.
: Marcus on AI, The first known chatbot associated death
I am particularly concerned that wholesale, plausible misinformation may create an atmosphere of mistrust, potentially undermining democracy; I also worry that large language models might also be weaponized to trick users as parts of large-scale (perhaps unprecedentedly large scale) cybercrime operations.
- Where
- paragraph 15
- Published
- 2023-04-04
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment marcus-the-first-known-chatbot-associated-8b0d6b-2-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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