Botshit Gone Wild
We recorded 4 claims from this post. 2 were checked against evidence. 2 can’t be checked. 3 more are held. Read the post at its source.
Claims from this post (4)
In the order they appear in the post. Each quotation is the speaker’s words in this post. A label such as “Supported” or “Can’t be checked” is the claim’s current assessment; its page has the evidence and the reasons.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Rhetoric
“We are immersed in a sea of bullshit.”
Our reading: Society is saturated with AI-generated falsehoods.
No horizon
Assessment: SupportedSaid
Observation
“Item 4: GenAI brings racist tropes to life.”
Our reading: Generative AI is being used to produce content that depicts racist tropes.
No horizon Evidence as of
Limitation: Provenance rests on Media Matters' watermark analysis as reported by The Verge.
Assessment: SupportedSaid
Observation
“Item 5, from the NYT last week, in article called A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy: we are starting to see misinformation play out on the world stage:”
Our reading: We are starting to see misinformation, in the AI context of the NYT article he cites, play out on the world stage.
No horizon Evidence as of
Limitation: How much AI changed election outcomes is disputed. This assessment covers presence, not decisive impact.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Forecast
“AI well and could truly could be a world-changing positive force, but Generative AI, I am not so sure.”
Our reading: AI could truly be a world-changing positive force, but the author is not so sure that generative AI could be.
No horizon
Scope: AI in general, as opposed to generative AI
Held from this post (3)
These records did not pass every check, so nothing about them is published. Held is not a finding.
- The criteria are ambiguous. Our reading, not assessed: Human use of untruthful LLM-generated content (botshit) has become increasingly abundant over time.
- The two reviews read the claim differently
- Attribution is uncertain