“It may produce both a blue cube and a red cube, but as likely as not, the red cube winds up on top of the blue cube.”
Our reading:
Asked for a blue cube on a red cube, DALL-E puts the red cube on top about as often as not, losing the relation between the parts.
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 requested exclusion for probabilistic language applies. Treating “as likely as not” as a firm claim that reversals occur at least half the time would also broaden the statement beyond approximate equality.
Caveats
- This decision says nothing about the actual reversal frequency of the contemporary DALL-E system.
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
- when prompted with a blue cube on top of a red cube (their words)
Where we had to interpret
- The context supplies the requested arrangement: a blue cube on top of a red cube.
- Under the requested exclusion for probabilistic wording, this statement is not converted into a scored frequency assertion.
- As likely as not suggests approximate equality of chances. It does not supply a threshold of half or more.
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Source and dates
Marcus on AI, Three ideas from linguistics that everyone in AI should know, paragraph 41.
- Said
- We read the source
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- Evidence up to
- Checked
We read this wording on 2026-10-29. The post may have been edited after 2022-06-22.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the posts we read.
: Marcus on AI, Three ideas from linguistics that everyone in AI should know
It may produce both a blue cube and a red cube, but as likely as not, the red cube winds up on top of the blue cube.
- Where
- paragraph 41
- Published
- 2022-06-22
- 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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Held backBy us
A reviewer said our test wasn’t fair to what was actually said.