“As I've written about previously, OpenAI's other problem is that generative AI (and by extension the model GPT and the product ChatGPT) doesn't solve the complex problems that would justify its massive costs.”
Our reading:
Generative AI, including GPT and ChatGPT, does not solve complex problems that would justify its massive costs.
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Why
The claim, from a post published 2024-09-16, is that generative AI, including GPT and ChatGPT, does not solve the complex problems that would justify its massive costs. Whether benefits justify costs is a value judgment. The post does not say which problems count as complex, which benefits count, or which costs (training, inference, capital) are included. Any test would need the evaluator to supply those standards, and no plain reading settles them. The evidence packet has no evidence items, and the one source it considered was not used. This claim is therefore not scored.
Caveats
- Not scoring this claim says nothing about whether the view is right or wrong.
- The packet has no evidence on what problems generative AI solves or what it costs, so no factual finding on either is made here.
- Financial results alone, such as company losses, would not settle whether benefits justify costs.
Evidence (0 items)
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How we judged it
- Kind of claim
- Observation
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Where we had to interpret
- Whether the problems generative AI solves 'justify' its costs is a value judgment. He gives no measure of which problems count as 'complex', or what benefit would count as justifying the costs.
- Any test would require the evaluator to choose the problems, the benefits and the cost allocation. No ordinary plain reading settles these choices, so the claim is not scored.
- His related, measurable point about money (OpenAI losing money) is assessed in separate claims from this post.
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Source and dates
Where's Your Ed At, The Subprime AI Crisis, paragraph 25.
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We read this wording on 2026-10-28. The post may have been edited after 2024-09-16.
Where it was said (1)
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: Where's Your Ed At, The Subprime AI Crisis
As I've written about previously, OpenAI's other problem is that generative AI (and by extension the model GPT and the product ChatGPT) doesn't solve the complex problems that would justify its massive costs.
- Where
- paragraph 25
- Published
- 2024-09-16
- We read it
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
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