Lost In The Future
We recorded 4 claims from this post. 4 can’t be checked. 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
Recommendation or value judgment
“Covering Meta, Twitter, Google, OpenAI and other huge tech companies as if the products they make are remarkable and perfect is disrespectful to readers and a disgusting abdication of responsibility, as their products are, even when they're functional, significantly worse, more annoying, more frustrating and more convoluted than ever”
Our reading: Media should not cover OpenAI and other big tech companies' products as remarkable and perfect, because those products are worse and more frustrating than ever.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“OpenAI being "worth" $157 billion for a company that burns $5 billion or more a year to make a product that destroys our environment for a product yet to find any real meaning isn't a sign that it should get more coverage or be taken more seriously.”
Our reading: OpenAI's $157 billion valuation is not a reason for it to receive more coverage or be taken more seriously.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Causal claim
“Whatever you may feel about ChatGPT, the coverage it receives is outsized compared to its actual utility and the things built on top of it, and that's a direct result of a media industry that seems incapable of holding the powerful accountable.”
Our reading: ChatGPT's media coverage is outsized compared to its actual utility and the things built on top of it, and this is a direct result of a media industry that seems incapable of holding the powerful accountable.
No horizon
Qualifier: seems incapable
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“And yet so much of the tech industry — consumer software like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and even ChatGPT, and business software from companies like Microsoft and Slack — outright sucks, yet gets covered as if that's just "how things are."”
Our reading: So much of the tech industry, including consumer software like Google, Facebook, Twitter and even ChatGPT and business software from companies like Microsoft and Slack, outright sucks, yet is covered as if that is just how things are.
No horizon
Scope: so much of the tech industry