“I am not stating that it is lying, but I do believe annualized revenue is a deliberate attempt to obfuscate things and give the vibe that the business is healthier than it is. I also do not think it’s likely that Anthropic made 23% of its lifetime revenue in the space of a month.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
While not stating that Anthropic is lying, he believes annualized revenue is a deliberate attempt to obfuscate things and make the business seem healthier than it is, and he does not think it likely that Anthropic made 23% of its lifetime revenue in a single month.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, The Beginning Of History, paragraph 83.
- Said
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- Evidence
- Not checkedboth screens found it cannot be checked
- Assessment recorded
- assessment wyea-the-beginning-of-history-f6dd8b-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
- I am not stating that it is lying (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
- 'I do believe' / 'I do not think it's likely' (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- I am not stating that it is lying
- 'I do believe' / 'I do not think it's likely'
- 23% of lifetime revenue
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
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- About something no public evidence could show, such as a private intention or a counterfactual.
- 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 that evidence could not settle it: one found it about something no public evidence could show, such as a private intention or a counterfactual; the other found it stated as a chance or a possibility, or at medium or low confidence.
Limitations
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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 Beginning Of History
I am not stating that it is lying, but I do believe annualized revenue is a deliberate attempt to obfuscate things and give the vibe that the business is healthier than it is. I also do not think it’s likely that Anthropic made 23% of its lifetime revenue in the space of a month.
- Where
- paragraph 83
- Published
- 2026-03-10
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment wyea-the-beginning-of-history-f6dd8b-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.