“It's incredibly difficult to make a model forget information, meaning that there may, at some point, be steps back in the development of models if datasets have to be reverted to previous versions with copyrighted materials removed.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
Because models are hard to make forget information, model development may go backwards if datasets have to be reverted to remove copyrighted material.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, Are We Watching The Internet Die?, paragraph 39.
- Said
- Source observed
- live page, full text, public
- Evidence
- Not checkedboth screens found it cannot be checked
- Assessment recorded
- assessment wyea-are-we-watching-the-internet-die-ee3ca4-a1
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What the claim commits to
- Kind
- Conditional forecast
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
- “at some point”
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No horizon (the release’s reference date)
Conditions
- if datasets must be reverted with copyrighted materials removed (antecedent, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- if datasets must be reverted with copyrighted materials removed
- at some point
Our interpretation
None added.
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Current assessment
Not graded on evidence
Outcome: Can’t be checked
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Why it can’t be checked
Both screens gave the same reason:
- Stated as a chance or a possibility, or at medium or low confidence.
- 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 stated as a chance or a possibility, or at medium or low confidence.
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, Are We Watching The Internet Die?
It's incredibly difficult to make a model forget information, meaning that there may, at some point, be steps back in the development of models if datasets have to be reverted to previous versions with copyrighted materials removed.
- Where
- paragraph 39
- Published
- 2024-03-11
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment wyea-are-we-watching-the-internet-die-ee3ca4-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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