Kurzweil has used large language models many thousands of times and has never seen an inaccurate output.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
Reasoning
This is a claim about his own use of these tools, saying he never saw an inaccurate output. No record could check his private experience.
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Ray Kurzweil, “Kurzweil has used large language models many thousands of times and has never seen an inaccurate output.” (said March 2025). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_098af5f54cf8, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_098af5f54cf8
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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