What We're Fighting For
We recorded 3 claims from this post. 3 can’t be checked. 4 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
Causal claim
“Generative AI would never have been any kind of “movement” or “industry” if the media had approached it from the perspective of a consumer and said “okay, sure, but what does this actually do?” and the same goes for both the metaverse and cryptocurrency.”
Our reading: Generative AI would never have become any kind of 'movement' or 'industry' if the media had approached it from a consumer's perspective and asked what it actually does, and the same goes for the metaverse and cryptocurrency.
No horizon
Qualifier: counterfactual: if the media had approached it from a consumer perspective and asked what it actually does
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Observation
“To this day I still can’t find a single journalist who has a cogent explanation as to why ChatGPT is big, other than the fact that lots of people use it.”
Our reading: To this day, Zitron says he still can't find a single journalist with a cogent explanation of why ChatGPT is big, other than the fact that lots of people use it.
No horizon
Qualifier: based on his own search ('I still can't find')
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“They’re everywhere, and they are real, meaningful stories, ones that are more important than Anthropic’s Dario Amodei farting into a microphone about how AI will be smarter than humans at some point!”
Our reading: Everyday problems with consumer software are real, meaningful stories that are more important than Dario Amodei talking about how AI will be smarter than humans at some point.
No horizon
Held from this post (4)
These records did not pass every check, so nothing about them is published. Held is not a finding.