“Generative AI is supposed to take millions of jobs away, but I am struggling to find a cogent explanation as to how, why or when. There’s just the sense that it will happen, and that if you squint hard enough you can sort of see what somebody might be saying.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
The author says he is struggling to find a cogent explanation of how, why or when generative AI will take millions of jobs, and that there is just a sense that it will happen.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, Post-Bull Depression, paragraph 18.
- Said
- Source observed
- live page, full text, public
- Evidence
- Not checkedboth screens found it cannot be checked
- Assessment recorded
- assessment wyea-post-bull-depression-a5259d-a1
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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
- as reported by the author (struggling to find) (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- as reported by the author (struggling to find)
- millions of jobs
Our interpretation
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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:
- About something no public evidence could show, such as a private intention or a counterfactual.
- 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 about something no public evidence could show, such as a private intention or a counterfactual.
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, Post-Bull Depression
Generative AI is supposed to take millions of jobs away, but I am struggling to find a cogent explanation as to how, why or when. There’s just the sense that it will happen, and that if you squint hard enough you can sort of see what somebody might be saying.
- Where
- paragraph 18
- Published
- 2023-04-06
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment wyea-post-bull-depression-a5259d-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.