“Yet had these companies actually charged their real costs, nobody would have bothered with AI, because even with these highly-subsidized subscriptions, AI still hasn’t delivered meaningful productivity benefits”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
Had AI companies charged their real costs, nobody would have bothered with AI, because even with highly subsidised subscriptions AI still hasn't delivered meaningful productivity benefits.
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 Is Here, paragraph 165.
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- Evidence
- Not checkedboth screens found it cannot be checked
- Assessment recorded
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- Kind
- Causal claim
- 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
- had these companies charged their real costs (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- had these companies charged their real costs
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:
- 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, The Subprime AI Crisis Is Here
Yet had these companies actually charged their real costs, nobody would have bothered with AI, because even with these highly-subsidized subscriptions, AI still hasn’t delivered meaningful productivity benefits
- Where
- paragraph 165
- Published
- 2026-03-31
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment wyea-the-subprime-ai-crisis-is-here-652d9e-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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