“While I agree with Sasso that George Carlin would indeed have been a voice we could use in 2024 if he were not dead, I do not believe that any “need” for a particular artist’s voice justifies creating an abominable digital clone with someone else’s words in its mouth.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
Zitron does not believe that any 'need' for a particular artist's voice justifies creating an abominable digital clone with someone else's words in its mouth.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, Empty Laughter, paragraph 27.
- Said
- Source observed
- live page, full text, public
- Evidence
- Not checkedboth screens found it cannot be checked
- Assessment recorded
- assessment wyea-empty-laughter-136733-a1
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What the claim commits to
- Kind
- Recommendation or value judgment
- 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
- I do not believe (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
- with someone else's words in its mouth (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
- while agreeing Carlin would have been a voice we could use in 2024 if he were not dead (scope, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- I do not believe
- with someone else's words in its mouth
- while agreeing Carlin would have been a voice we could use in 2024 if he were not dead
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:
- A recommendation or a value judgment.
- 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 a recommendation or a value judgment.
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, Empty Laughter
While I agree with Sasso that George Carlin would indeed have been a voice we could use in 2024 if he were not dead, I do not believe that any “need” for a particular artist’s voice justifies creating an abominable digital clone with someone else’s words in its mouth.
- Where
- paragraph 27
- Published
- 2024-01-16
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment wyea-empty-laughter-136733-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
Recorded events
Assessment publishedBy this site
First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.