“After developing and launching these features, they find customers don't want to pay for them, as Microsoft has found with its 365 Copilot, and if they can't find a way to make them pay for it now, during the AI boom, they're going to be hard pressed to once people's bosses stop asking them to "get in on AI."”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
In one of several hypothesized scenarios, companies that can't get customers to pay for AI features now, during the boom, will be hard pressed to once bosses stop pushing people to get in on AI.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, The Subprime AI Crisis, paragraph 105.
- Said
- Source observed
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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
- Conditional 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
- if they can't get customers to pay during the AI boom (antecedent, stated by the speaker)
- one of a few hypothesized scenarios (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- if they can't get customers to pay during the AI boom
- one of a few hypothesized scenarios
Our interpretation
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Current assessment
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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, The Subprime AI Crisis
After developing and launching these features, they find customers don't want to pay for them, as Microsoft has found with its 365 Copilot, and if they can't find a way to make them pay for it now, during the AI boom, they're going to be hard pressed to once people's bosses stop asking them to "get in on AI."
- Where
- paragraph 105
- Published
- 2024-09-16
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment wyea-subprimeai-174a7d-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
Recorded events
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