{"id":"1792886530921-mix-segment","slug":"wemby-stats-post-slammed","title":"Wemby stats post slammed","summary":"The stats don't match the game. Wembanyama's regular-season averages are 18.5 points and 13.0 rebounds per Hoop Dossier, but the Spurs-Mavs game was on Wednesday, October 22, not \"tonight\" from a post made minutes before tip-off, and the post appears to repurpose preview stats as a current stat line.","publishedAt":"2026-10-25T00:02:10.921Z","channel":{"id":"mix","name":"Oncast Mix","language":"en"},"show":"Prime Time","verification":{"status":"verified","leadVerdict":"FALSE","notes":"FALSE: The stats don't match the game. Wembanyama's regular-season averages are 18.5 points and 13.0 rebounds per Hoop Dossier, but the Spurs-Mavs game was on Wednesday, October 22, not \"tonight\" from a post made minutes before tip-off, and the post appears to repurpose preview stats as a current stat line.\nSource: hoopdossier.com (https://x.com/NBA/status/2114144354474541297)","claims":[{"verdict":"FALSE","summary":"The stats don't match the game. Wembanyama's regular-season averages are 18.5 points and 13.0 rebounds per Hoop Dossier, but the Spurs-Mavs game was on Wednesday, October 22, not \"tonight\" from a post made minutes before tip-off, and the post appears to repurpose preview stats as a current stat line.","sourceName":"hoopdossier.com","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/NBA/status/2114144354474541297","claim":"Wemby (18.5 PPG, 13.0 RPG) getting loose before tonight's action in Dallas 👽 🆚 Spurs/Mavs 📺 8pm/et, NBA League Pass https://t.co/8datnVtSdH","author":"@NBA"}]},"sources":[{"url":"https://x.com/NBA/status/2114144354474541297","name":"hoopdossier.com","kind":"x","verdict":"FALSE","author":"@NBA"}],"url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1792886530921-mix-segment-wemby-stats-post-slammed","listenUrl":"https://oncast.fm/c/mix","attribution":{"publisher":"Oncast","site":"https://oncast.fm","url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1792886530921-mix-segment-wemby-stats-post-slammed","cite":"Cite https://oncast.fm/story/1792886530921-mix-segment-wemby-stats-post-slammed and the original source links. Fact-check by Oncast (oncast.fm)."},"hostsSaid":[{"host":"Sloane","text":"Okay, Wemby's getting loose in Dallas, and I want to flag something because the NBA's own account is being sloppy."},{"host":"Eric","text":"What'd they do?"},{"host":"Sloane","text":"They posted his averages — eighteen and a half points, thirteen boards — like they're tonight's stat line. That Spurs-Mavs game was Wednesday."},{"host":"Eric","text":"So they're recycling preview stats?"},{"host":"Sloane","text":"That's what it looks like. The game's already happened, but the post reads like it's minutes before tip-off. Sloppy."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Fair. And it's a shame because the actual game was worth watching. Wemby's numbers are real, just not for tonight."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Speaking of numbers — check this. A developer on Bluesky says one guy pumped out sixteen games in months, every one an AI clone of something else."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Casey Pumpkins. He said it's not creativity, not anyone's dream game. It's spam. Constant, low-effort, never-ending AI spam."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"And this is the fight right now. You've got people saying AI is going to destroy humanity, and meanwhile the real problem is it's flooding the store with garbage."},{"host":"Eric","text":"I actually think both sides of the AI debate are missing this. The doomsday crowd is screaming about robots taking over, but the boring reality is worse: sixteen games nobody asked for."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"But hold on. You're the tech optimist here. You're saying AI enables spam factories, and that's fine because the market will sort it out?"},{"host":"Eric","text":"I'm saying the market IS sorting it out. People see the slop, they scroll past. The good stuff rises."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Does it? Because this dev has been playing games for years and he says sixteen of them showed up in months. That's drowning actual creators."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Maybe. But creative tools always produce a flood of junk first. When cameras got cheap, everyone thought photography was dead. It just changed."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Cameras didn't generate a thousand identical photos in an afternoon."},{"host":"Eric","text":"No, but the fear was the same. And the answer wasn't banning cameras. It was curation, better filters, better stores."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Here's the other post that nails it, from Pavel: 'AI will destroy humanity' has always been an attempt to distract from 'AI will leak your login credentials to the internet.'"},{"host":"Eric","text":"That's sharp. We're worried about Skynet, and meanwhile the models are just... handing out passwords."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"And that's the security problem nobody's fixing because everyone's arguing about whether AI is sentient."},{"host":"Eric","text":"I'll give you this: the spam problem is real. I just don't think regulation solves it. Better platforms do."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Until they get flooded too. Then what?"},{"host":"Eric","text":"Then we get better at ignoring junk. Look, I've been on the internet since the nineties. It survived pop-up ads. It'll survive AI slop."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"That's a lot of faith in a system that's currently showing you sixteen identical games from one guy."},{"host":"Eric","text":"But the system is showing you that it's slop. That's the part that works. In the old days you couldn't tell. Now it's obvious."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Maybe. But there's another post from SpeckObst on Bluesky: 'Let the market decide' people when the market decides to boycott AI slop."},{"host":"Eric","text":"So the boycott is the market deciding. That's not a gotcha, that's the point. Consumers are the filter."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"But the boycott is a judgment, not a mechanism. It's saying the market failed to prevent this."},{"host":"Eric","text":"I think it's saying the market is working as intended. Bad stuff gets ignored. The only question is whether the good stuff gets found."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"If sixteen AI games are drowning out one real developer's game, the good stuff is NOT getting found."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Then that's a discovery problem, not a content problem! The stores need to fix search and recommendations. It's not the developer's fault, it's not the AI's fault, it's the storefront."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"And you think the storefronts are motivated to fix it?"},{"host":"Eric","text":"If it costs them customers, absolutely. Money talks. Always has."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"So we're back to letting the market decide."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Yes. And honestly? I'll take that bet."}]}