Pundit ClaimsAI claims by Gary Marcus and Ed Zitron, with the evidence

Claims that can’t be checked by Ed Zitron, page 14 of 14

Deadlines are judged as of 2026-10-29. About Ed Zitron and the sources covered.

Claims that can’t be checked by Ed Zitron (1320)

Public evidence cannot settle these claims, so they are recorded and attributed, not scored. Most were screened out: both AI providers read the claim on its own and found it a value judgment, rhetoric, hedged, too vague to test, or about something no public evidence could show. The rest were found to be recommendations or too open to test in a full review.

Page 14 of 14: claims 1301 to 1320 of 1320, ordered by the date first said, newest first. To find a claim by its words, use search.

  1. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “Executive excitement around generative AI is borne from these disconnected economics, because none of these people actually create anything.”

  2. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “The Writers Guild of America has brought up similar concerns (and made it clear they are willing to strike to protect the rights of their workers) and will likely successfully protect writers as a result.”

  3. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “The many, many rounds of layoffs that have happened seem to be due to the fact that tech companies have all agreed it’s a great time to do so.”

  4. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “Generative AI is supposed to take millions of jobs away, but I am struggling to find a cogent explanation as to how, why or when. There’s just the sense that it will happen, and that if you squint hard enough you can sort of see what somebody might be saying.”

  5. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “Generative AI appears to be the only way to get funding at the moment”

  6. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “Generative AI has some promise, but also has the potential to cause genuine harm.”

  7. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “Snap, for whatever reason, has decided that the best allocation of their resources was to add a ChatGPT-powered AI bot to Snapchat to “recommend birthday gifts for your BFF” or “plan a hiking trip for a long weekend,” features that don’t really make sense in a chat app. Or, for that matter, at all.”

  8. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “And Benioff’s new push into the nebulous world of adding AI to a CRM for the fourth or fifth time is likely to placate a push by activist investor Elliott Management and to try and stabilize a stock that has dropped from $210 to $167 in the last year.”

  9. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “The reason that none of these products seem to ever have a firm connection to any real use case or product is that these announcements are not for customers.”

  10. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “Venture capital may claim to love “innovators,” but what they really want is the quickest possible multiplier of their initial investment, which is why a lot of people are equating the hype around generative AI to that of the cryptocurrency boom of 2021 and early 2022.”

  11. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “Salesforce doesn’t need to make a better CRM, or actually integrate AI in a useful way, because Marc Benioff is able to march onto CNBC and tell Jim Cramer that he wrote a book and businesses “must value stakeholders as much as shareholders.””

  12. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “Meta, a company that predominantly makes money through advertising, has created an entirely new product team under a former Apple VP built to “[quickly] integrate the latest [generative AI] technologies into its products,” as well as open-sourcing their own large language model “to help researchers advance their work in this subfield of AI,” and crucially appear to Wall Street as a company that was doing something with generative AI.”

  13. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “But it’s easy to imagine that if Bing AI or Bard suddenly start referring high school history students to the works of David Irving, the authorities in Berlin or Paris might take action.”

  14. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “Microsoft rushed out Bing AI because they wanted their shareholders to see them as constantly growing, despite the fact that it is both regularly wrong and actively manipulative users.”

  15. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “ChatGPT and generative AI are not themselves the problem, but as with many things in tech, the way that they are thrown into the market has made them potentially dangerous.”

  16. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “Microsoft and Google’s customers are victims of rich people playing with toys, hoping to find ways to please rich people that invest the money of other rich people.”

  17. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “But even with that caveat, there’s still the possibility that something could go terribly wrong.”

  18. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “But when put in the context of “this is how search engines are going to work going forward,” they are absolutely fucking ridiculous.”

  19. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “But Microsoft has already admitted that Bing may misrepresent the information that Bing’s AI finds, meaning that while content may be represented by particular sources, it is being “created” by Bing - which Microsoft would likely be potentially liable for.”

  20. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid

    “A ChatGPT-powered search engine marketed by a massive tech company as a search engine is one that users are likely to believe the answers of, meaning that when said search engine gives patently incorrect and “unhinged” results, we are likely to see situations of misinformation that dwarf the damage caused by Cambridge Analytica and Facebook.”