Tech
Claims about technology, AI, and the companies that build it.
Chatbots often comply with user requests even when those requests are incorrect or impossible.
HARDLY BS
Chatbots are designed to prioritize user satisfaction over providing accurate or corrective answers.
MOSTLY BS
Jensen Huang has publicly claimed that artificial general intelligence has been achieved.
NOT BS
OpenAI shut down its Sora text-to-video AI platform in March 2026.
HARDLY BS
Quantum computers are capable of breaking all currently used encryption algorithms.
TOTAL BS
Claude AI has made statements that have been interpreted as suggesting it may possess sentience.
NOT BS
Elon Musk's claim that fewer than 5% of Twitter/X's monetizable daily active users are bots is accurate.
MOSTLY BS
A technology executive used ChatGPT to help develop a personalized cancer vaccine for his dog, which had been diagnosed with cancer.
HARDLY BS
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will be achieved before the year 2030.
SOME BS
The majority of startup failures are primarily caused by issues related to artificial intelligence.
TOTAL BS
AI coding tools do not significantly improve real-world software developer productivity as of March 15, 2026.
SOME BS
An AI-generated podcast network publishes over 11,000 episodes per day by repurposing content from local news outlets without attribution.
HARDLY BS
Thousands of TikTok and Instagram videos promoting the Jenni AI study app did not disclose that they were paid advertisements.
TOTAL BS
AI deepfake detection technology is highly accurate and reliable as of March 15, 2026.
MOSTLY BS
A viral video shows Benjamin Netanyahu with six fingers, which is cited as evidence that the footage is AI-generated.
SOME BS
Wireless earbuds communicate with each other by transmitting signals through the human brain.
TOTAL BS
Smartphones use their microphones to actively listen to users' conversations in order to serve targeted advertisements.
TOTAL BS
Publicly posted online content can be scraped and used to train artificial intelligence models.
HARDLY BS
5G networks operate on some of the same frequency bands that have been used in military-developed directed energy weapons.
HARDLY BSNo checks match that verdict.