Never Forgive Them
We recorded 6 claims from this post. 6 can’t be checked. 2 more are held. Read the post at its source.
Claims from this post (6)
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
Causal claim
“This has irreparably damaged the internet in ways I believe few fully understand.”
Our reading: The flood of AI-generated content has irreparably damaged the internet.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Observation
“These companies unleashed generative AI on the world — or, in the case of Microsoft, facilitated its ascendency — without any consideration of what that would mean for the Internet as an ecosystem.”
Our reading: Google and Microsoft released or facilitated generative AI without considering its effect on the internet ecosystem.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Rhetoric
“Sam Altman is a con artist, a liar, and a sleazy carnival barker who would burn our planet to the ground, steal from millions of people and burn billions of dollars in pursuit of power, and I believe the same can be said of people like Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Mustafa Suleyman of Microsoft.”
Our reading: Sam Altman is a con artist, a liar, and a sleazy carnival barker who would burn the planet to the ground, steal from millions of people, and burn billions of dollars in pursuit of power.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Rhetoric
“Sam Altman is a con artist, a liar, and a sleazy carnival barker who would burn our planet to the ground, steal from millions of people and burn billions of dollars in pursuit of power, and I believe the same can be said of people like Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Mustafa Suleyman of Microsoft.”
Our reading: Zitron believes the same can be said of people like Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Mustafa Suleyman of Microsoft: that they are con artists, liars, and sleazy carnival barkers who would burn the planet to the ground, steal from millions of people, and burn billions of dollars in pursuit of power.
No horizon
Qualifier: I believe the same can be said
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Conditional forecast
“You talking about the truth behind generative AI, or the harms of Facebook, or the gratuitous destruction of Google Search will change things, because these people are unprepared for a public that knows both what they’ve done and their sickening, loathsome, selfish and greedy intentions.”
Our reading: Public discussion of the truth behind generative AI and other tech harms will change things because tech leaders are unprepared for an informed public.
No horizon
Only if: if the public talks about the truth behind generative AI and other harms
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“Be the person who tells people that Sam Altman burns $5 billion a year on unsustainable software that destroys the environment and is built upon the large-scale larceny of creative works because he's desperate for power.”
Our reading: Readers should tell others that Sam Altman burns $5 billion a year on unsustainable, environmentally destructive software built on stolen creative works.
No horizon
Held from this post (2)
These records did not pass every check, so nothing about them is published. Held is not a finding.
- The two reviews read the claim differently
- The two reviews reached different assessments. Our reading, not assessed: Sam Altman burns $5 billion a year on unsustainable software that destroys the environment and is built upon the large-scale larceny of creative works, because he is desperate for power.