“But lately, he and they have made a lot of mistakes, and broken a lot of promises.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
Lately Sam Altman and OpenAI have made many mistakes and broken many promises.
Assessment: Unresolved Evidence as of
Where and when Gary Marcus wrote it
Marcus on AI, What should we learn from OpenAI’s mistakes and broken promises?, paragraph 1.
- Said
- Source observed
- live page, full text, public
- Evidence as of
- the cutoff for this assessment
- Assessment recorded
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What the claim commits to
- Kind
- Observation
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
- None stated. This site does not add one.
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No horizon (the release’s reference date)
Conditions
- lately (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- lately
- he and they
- a lot of mistakes
- broken a lot of promises
Our interpretation
- The ordinary reading is a repeated pattern of errors and failures to honor identifiable commitments, involving Altman and OpenAI collectively.
- The contrast with a year ago makes the preceding year the assessment period.
- A controversy alone does not establish an error. A promise must have become due or been definitively abandoned before publication to count as broken.
- No numerical threshold for either category is supplied.
Counts as supported if: Records establish several distinct errors and multiple identifiable commitments that were already breached during the target period.
Counts as contradicted if: Records substantially refute the incidents offered as evidence of repeated errors and show that the relevant commitments were honored or had not been breached.
Retrospective: these criteria were written after the outcome was public.
Current assessment
Was it true for the period described?
Outcome: Unresolved
The record was checked, and the evidence available by the cutoff does not settle it.
Scored on a plain reading. The speaker named no measure for this claim, so it was judged on the reading an informed reader would take, stated below under our interpretation. Both reviews had to find that reading fair.
- Evidence as of
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Assessment recorded
- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
Rationale
The cited examples require separate judgments about errors, commitments, and deadlines. The original safety commitment ran over four years, so incomplete delivery by May 2024 would not alone prove a broken promise. The assembled record does not establish enough distinct, already-breached commitments and documented errors to support or contradict the whole sentence.
Limitations
- This is not a finding that no mistakes or broken promises occurred.
- The broad aggregate remains less determinate than its individual examples.
Evidence (1 item)
Context only: OpenAI,
four years
Why it matters here: The original commitment covered four years. Incomplete delivery by May 2024 alone cannot establish that this promise had already been broken.
- Publisher
- OpenAI
- Kind of source
- Company disclosure: the company describing itself, not an independent finding
- Describes events of
- Public from
What would settle it
A documented inventory of distinct errors and explicit commitments, with evidence showing which commitments were breached by May 26, 2024.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the sources this register covers.
: Marcus on AI, What should we learn from OpenAI’s mistakes and broken promises?
But lately, he and they have made a lot of mistakes, and broken a lot of promises.
- Where
- paragraph 1
- Published
- 2024-05-26
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment marcus-what-should-we-learn-from-openais-cdf556-a1: Current. Outcome: Unresolved. Evidence as of 2026-10-28. Public date not recorded.
Recorded events
Assessment publishedBy this site
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