Cecily Mauran

Cecily is a tech reporter at Mashable who covers AI, Apple, and emerging tech trends. Before getting her master’s degree at Columbia Journalism School, she spent several years working with startups and social impact businesses for Unreasonable Group and B Lab. Before that, she co-founded a startup consulting business for emerging entrepreneurial hubs in South America, Europe, and Asia. You can find her on Twitter at @cecily_mauran. Adobe unveils AI features for Photoshop — but not everyone is happy about it No more private conversations will be leaked from pharmacy customers using ChatGPT. Apple released an open-source AI image editing model. What is Apple scheming up? OpenAI and Google will be required to notify the government about AI models.

Biography:  https://sea.mashable.com/u/cecily-mauran

28%

The overall score is a weighted number that takes into account conflict of interest, bias, deception and other practices that undermines the credibility of the source. It is calculated as:
Analysis.OverallConflictOfInterestScore * 0.3F + Analysis.OverallBiasScore * 0.3F + Analysis.DeceptivenessScore * 0.3F + Analysis.ReadabilityScore * 0.1F

A score that takes into consideration the content for flow, interruptions with ads, and overt search engine optimization techniques that makes the content hard to understand

The Daily's Verdict

This author has a poor reputation for journalistic standards and is not considered a reliable news source.

Bias

20%

Examples:

  • Cecily Mauran has a slight bias against deception in reporting.
  • Cecily Mauran has a slight bias towards Bard and its features.

Conflicts of Interest

10%

Examples:

  • Cecily Mauran may have a conflict of interest with OpenAI and its products.
  • Cecily Mauran may have a conflict of interest with the AI industry in general.

Contradictions

30%

Examples:

  • There are contradictions in the articles provided regarding Bard's text-to-image capability.
  • There are contradictions in the articles provided regarding the accessibility of Copilot.

Deceptions

30%

Examples:

  • The article on Ai Pin's features and its connection to OpenAI is deceptive because it suggests a direct link between the two without clear evidence.
  • The article on Copilot's UI resembling Bing Chat is deceptive because it implies that this is the first time such a feature has been introduced on Bard or other products.

Recent Articles

Google's Gemini: Real-Time Responses, Task Scheduling, and Expanded File Uploads - A Step Forward in AI Assistance

Google's Gemini: Real-Time Responses, Task Scheduling, and Expanded File Uploads - A Step Forward in AI Assistance

Broke On: Tuesday, 23 April 2024 Google's Gemini, a new AI assistant, introduces real-time responses and task scheduling through 'Live Prompts'. Available on various Google platforms, this upgrade provides seamless data generation and user-defined commands. Despite accuracy concerns and ongoing improvements to biases, Gemini aims to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Google's Imagen 2: A Revolutionary Text-to-Image Model for High Quality Images and Realistic Human Faces

Google's Imagen 2: A Revolutionary Text-to-Image Model for High Quality Images and Realistic Human Faces

Broke On: Saturday, 03 February 2024 Google's AI image generator, Imagen 2, is now available to the public. It can generate high quality images and even render challenging tasks such as human faces and hands realistically. Google has implemented guardrails to prevent generating violent, offensive or sexually explicit content with AI image generators.
Microsoft Copilot Now Available on iOS and Android

Microsoft Copilot Now Available on iOS and Android

Broke On: Wednesday, 31 January 2024 Microsoft Copilot is a generative AI chatbot powered by GPT-4 and DALL-E 3 Copilot allows users to ask complex questions, draft documents or emails, generate images from text descriptions using the Image Creator feature powered by DALL-E 3 among other things Copilot has been downloaded over 1.5 million times worldwide across both platforms since its launch over the holidays in November Copilot is being offered as a standalone service with this latest launch.

Humane Launches Wearable Ai Pin Powered by OpenAI and Microsoft

Broke On: Thursday, 09 November 2023 Humane, a startup founded by ex-Apple engineers, has launched a wearable device called the Ai Pin. The Ai Pin is powered by OpenAI's GPT-4 and Microsoft's AI models. The device offers a new form of interaction with AI, including voice commands, touchpad, gestures, and a Laser Ink Display projected onto the user's palm. Humane has raised $241 million from Microsoft, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and others.