“In fact, generative AI is turning out to be a fever dream entirely made up by big tech. OpenAI would be dead if it wasn’t for the massive infrastructure provided by Microsoft at-cost in return for rights to its IP, research, and the ability to sell its models on top of the tens of billions of dollars of venture capital thrown into its billion-dollar cash incinerator.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
OpenAI would be dead without Microsoft's at-cost infrastructure and massive venture funding.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, AI Is A Money Trap, paragraph 187.
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- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
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: Where's Your Ed At, AI Is A Money Trap
In fact, generative AI is turning out to be a fever dream entirely made up by big tech. OpenAI would be dead if it wasn’t for the massive infrastructure provided by Microsoft at-cost in return for rights to its IP, research, and the ability to sell its models on top of the tens of billions of dollars of venture capital thrown into its billion-dollar cash incinerator.
- Where
- paragraph 187
- Published
- 2025-08-06
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
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- Assessment wyea-ai-is-a-money-trap-19a709-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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