Managing Up
We recorded 3 claims from this post. 3 can’t be checked. 2 more are held. Read the post at its source.
Claims from this post (3)
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
“Much like ChatGPT, Altman is capable only of loosely approximating the output requested, because at his core he lacks any of the substance or technical history required to do so.”
Our reading: ChatGPT, like Sam Altman, can only loosely approximate the output requested of it.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Conditional forecast
“If left unchecked, OpenAI will perpetuate one of the largest thefts in history, looting the internet and using it to train models that have yet to prove their necessity other than as a symbol that Silicon Valley can still innovate.”
Our reading: If left unchecked, OpenAI will perpetuate one of the largest thefts in history by looting the internet and using it to train models that have yet to prove their necessity other than as a symbol that Silicon Valley can still innovate.
No horizon
Only if: if OpenAI is left unchecked
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Causal claim
“Yet because Altman — like every manager — is so thoroughly divorced from actual production, he’s only succeeded in generating unsustainable hype and making vague promises that the people who do the actual work at OpenAI likely know they can’t keep.”
Our reading: Because he is divorced from actual production, Altman has only generated unsustainable AI hype and vague promises that OpenAI's workers likely know cannot be kept.
No horizon
Held from this post (2)
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