“If you think any of this is worth hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars, you are either ignorant or corrupt. On top of how disgusting their outputs feel, the cost is going to take at least a decade to share, and begin the end of hypergrowth in the tech industry.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
The cost of AI investment is going to take at least a decade to 'share' (his word, meaning unclear) and will begin the end of hypergrowth in the tech industry.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, The AI Hater's Manifesto, paragraph 35.
- Said
- Source observed
- live page, full text, public
- Evidence
- Not checkedboth screens found it cannot be checked
- Assessment recorded
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What the claim commits to
- Kind
- Forecast
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
- “at least a decade”
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No horizon (the release’s reference date)
Conditions
- 'share' is his word; its intended meaning is unclear (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- 'share' is his word; its intended meaning is unclear
- at least a decade
- at least a decade
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:
- Too vague to test: informed readers would test it in different ways and reach different answers.
- 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 too vague to test: informed readers would test it in different ways and reach different answers.
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 AI Hater's Manifesto
If you think any of this is worth hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars, you are either ignorant or corrupt. On top of how disgusting their outputs feel, the cost is going to take at least a decade to share, and begin the end of hypergrowth in the tech industry.
- Where
- paragraph 35
- Published
- 2026-08-25
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment wyea-the-ai-haters-manifesto-61439f-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
Recorded events
Assessment publishedBy this site
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