“While this might be possible within the slush fund mindset of a well-funded startup or a banana republic like Meta, any business that actually cares about its costs will have a great deal of trouble justifying spending five or six figures in extra costs on a service that “increases productivity” in a way that nobody can seem to measure.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
Any business that actually cares about its costs will have a great deal of trouble justifying five or six figures in extra costs on a service whose claimed productivity increase nobody can seem to measure, though this might be possible for well-funded startups or companies like Meta.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, AI's Economics Don't Make Sense [Ad Free], paragraph 76.
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- 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
- 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
- any business that actually cares about its costs (scope, stated by the speaker)
- might be possible for well-funded startups or Meta (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- any business that actually cares about its costs
- might be possible for well-funded startups or Meta
- five or six figures
Our interpretation
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Current assessment
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Outcome: Can’t be checked
Both AI providers screened this claim on their own and found that public evidence could not settle it. It is recorded and attributed, not scored.
Why it can’t be checked
Both screens gave the same reason:
- Too vague to test: informed readers would test it in different ways and reach different answers.
- Evidence
- Not checked
- 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 too vague to test: informed readers would test it in different ways and reach different answers.
Limitations
None recorded.
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.
: Where's Your Ed At, AI's Economics Don't Make Sense [Ad Free]
While this might be possible within the slush fund mindset of a well-funded startup or a banana republic like Meta, any business that actually cares about its costs will have a great deal of trouble justifying spending five or six figures in extra costs on a service that “increases productivity” in a way that nobody can seem to measure.
- Where
- paragraph 76
- Published
- 2026-04-28
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment wyea-ais-economics-dont-make-sense-ad-free-a08d65-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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