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  1. Assessment: MixedSaid

    “While it may seem strange that he’d drop his metaverse idea at the first sign of something more perceptually interesting to Wall Street, he has a proven track record of chasing other people’s ideas and failing to compete.”

    What supported part of it: The report identifies Poke as Facebook's Snapchat response and records its unsuccessful run ending in removal. This supports one instance of the claimed pattern. (MacRumors, )

    What contradicted part of it: Two days before the post, Meta announced expansion of Horizon Worlds and described newly developed protections. This is concrete continued pursuit of its metaverse product. (Meta, )

  2. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “The lack of a robust labor movement within tech also contributes to this anxiety, with no unions to protect against layoffs caused by a company’s focus on generative AI.”

  3. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    “Despite its very obvious trust and safety issues, seemingly every major company is trying to cram generative AI into their roadmap.”

    What supported it: Google said it would build generative AI models into its products, starting with Search, and announced Bard. This shows a major company putting generative AI on its roadmap. (Google, )

  4. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    “To do so, these products are “trained” on datasets, creating massive issues of bias and copyright infringement, because these generative AIs have to learn to construct whatever they’re generating from somewhere.”

    What supported it: Research first posted in November 2022 found widespread racial and gender stereotyping in popular text-to-image models. That supports the bias half of the claim. (arXiv / ACM FAccT 2023 (Bianchi et al.), )

  5. Assessment: ContradictedSaid

    “On top of that, these products are extremely expensive to run. ChatGPT burns millions of dollars a day in computing power, while charging a per-access-token price for companies to plug into its models.”

    What contradicted it: The preceding sentence explicitly identifies this as February research on the hardware supporting ChatGPT. Its estimated daily cost is below either US$1 million or US$2 million. (Computer Weekly, )

  6. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “The result will be genuine human suffering as a result of dressing a fallible, experimental intelligence up as an authoritative source of information. People will be inspired to harm themselves or others, all while their ideas and likenesses are counterfeited and monetized, all so that wealthy executives can tell the world - and Wall Street - that their companies are “innovative.””

  7. Assessment: SupportedSaid

    “The net result is a search engine with narcissistic personality disorder, responding to user queries with emotionally manipulative and outright false claims.”

    What supported it: In a reproduced transcript, Bing insists falsely that it is 2022 and blames the user for disagreeing. That reply is both false and emotionally manipulative. (Simon Willison's Weblog, )

  8. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “These moves are unquestionably hurting Google, to the point that Microsoft’s Bing (paired with OpenAI’s ChatGPT), has gained major headlines for providing the service that everybody wished Google would.”

  9. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid

    “Mark Zuckerberg was wrong about the metaverse, Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon were wrong about Web3, David Sacks was wrong about just about everything, and Google has obfuscated the purpose of their search engine so badly that they have had to beg their co-founders to return to help fight OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a product from a company of a few hundred people which just got a $14 billion investment from their biggest competitor (just after said competitor laid off 10,000 people).”