You Can't Make Friends With The Rockstars
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
“or that Meta's AI product's only differentiating feature is that its 500 million monthly active users are helping kill our planet by generating meaningless slop.”
Our reading: Meta's AI product's only differentiating feature is that its 500 million monthly active users are helping kill the planet by generating meaningless slop.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Causal claim
“Had Sam Altman not been mythologized, there is far less of a chance that people — both investors and the media — would've taken OpenAI this seriously, and questions around profitability and sustainability would've been immediate problems to address versus "issues" to be "mitigated."”
Our reading: Had Sam Altman not been mythologized, there would have been far less of a chance that investors and the media took OpenAI this seriously, and questions about profitability and sustainability would have been immediate problems to address rather than 'issues' to be 'mitigated'.
No horizon
Only if: had Sam Altman not been mythologized
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“Every single article about OpenAI should include something about the brittleness of its business, and about the many, many half-truths of Sam Altman — yet more often than not these pieces feel like they simply accept that whatever he’s saying is both reasonable and accurate.”
Our reading: Every article about OpenAI should mention the brittleness of its business and Sam Altman's half-truths.
No horizon
Held from this post (2)
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