The stuff I write about is so nuts that I find myself quadruple-checking the facts with pen and paper.
For example, in 2020 Andreessen Horowitz led a $12 million investment round in the Clubhouse app (at a $100M valuation). It had 1500 users. It reached $4 billion valuation in 2021, then...poof.
Like...how can that be real? Such is the terrible power of venture capital.
Only by printing out a hard copies and matching word-for-word do I fully trust my eyes. I am pretty lax about many things, but I get very OCD about this stuff.
Books—the original blockchains.
Not to mention the Antichrist/overthrow the USA stuff. Did the billionaires really say these things, or did someone spike my tea with LSD?
Also, how do people trust AI to do this stuff? I hired a human fact checker. And yet I am reviewing every single fact and link again..because this is my baby.
I will say: reviewing all the facts with fresh eyes has yielded new info and insights. All of that would be missed with a hallucination machine fact check. One must suffer the thinking to obtain the knowledge.
Also, anyone who has witnessed an LLM completely hallucinate a juicy headline that doesn't actually exist...
I still have yellowed copies of my newspaper stories from the 1990s in storage. Was gonna toss them, but then realized: One of my major pieces completely disappeared from online archives. Another was defaced (word changes) by a rogue typist. The proof matters.
Gil Durán