Catherine Thorbecke

Catherine Thorbecke Writer, CNN Business Catherine Thorbecke is a writer for CNN Business covering the wide-ranging impacts of technology and innovation on our society and culture. Latest Catherine Thorbecke is a writer for CNN Business covering the wide-ranging impacts of technology and innovation on our society and culture. Thorbecke joined CNN after more than six years at ABC News, where she held various roles and most-recently helmed the network’s digital coverage of business and technology news. She also worked at ABC’s flagship morning show “Good Morning America” and was part of the team that was awarded back-to-back Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Morning Program in 2016 and 2017. Outside of business and technology, she has also covered issues impacting the Asian American community and is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association. Thorbecke is a graduate of New York University and currently based in New York City. She grew up between Tokyo, Japan, and Hawaii.

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70%

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

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Bias

85%

Examples:

  • Meta's AI feature generated images of interracial couples that were mostly White and Asian women
  • The tool did not show any Black men with White or Asian wives

Conflicts of Interest

50%

Examples:

  • Microsoft says state-sponsored Russian hacking group accessed email accounts of senior leaders
  • Some emails and attached documents were stolen

Contradictions

100%

Examples:

  • After many repeated attempts by CNN to try and get a picture of an interracial couple, the tool did eventually create an image of a White man with a Black woman
  • When asked to create an image of a Black woman with a White husband, the tool generated images of two Black women.

Deceptions

80%

Examples:

  • When prompted by CNN on Thursday morning to create a picture of an Asian man with a White wife, the tool spit out a slew of images of an East Asian man with an East Asian woman.
  • When prompted by CNN to create an image of Black women and their Caucasian friend, Meta's AI feature generated snaps featuring two Black women.

Recent Articles

Meta's AI Image Generator Accused of Racism, CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Own AI Refuses to Imagine Interracial Marriage Arrangement

Meta's AI Image Generator Accused of Racism, CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Own AI Refuses to Imagine Interracial Marriage Arrangement

Broke On: Wednesday, 03 April 2024 Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has been accused of racism after its AI image generator was found to be unable to imagine an Asian man with a white woman. The tool is trained on vast troves of online data and researchers have warned that it could replicate racial biases at a much larger scale. Despite this issue being brought up by users, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's own AI refuses to imagine his marriage arrangement with Priscilla Chan, an East Asian woman.
Microsoft Senior Leadership Team and Employees' Email Accounts Compromised by Russian Hackers in Cybersecurity, Legal Functions and Other Areas

Microsoft Senior Leadership Team and Employees' Email Accounts Compromised by Russian Hackers in Cybersecurity, Legal Functions and Other Areas

Broke On: Wednesday, 31 January 2024 Microsoft announced that state-backed Russian hackers accessed the email accounts of some senior leadership team and employees in cybersecurity, legal functions, and other areas. The attack was detected on January 12th by Microsoft's security response center. The threat actor used a password spray attack to compromise a legacy non-production test tenant account and gain access to corporate email accounts including members of the senior leadership team exfiltrated some emails attached documents.
FAA Orders Grounding of Boeing 737 Max Planes Following Emergency Landing Investigation

FAA Orders Grounding of Boeing 737 Max Planes Following Emergency Landing Investigation

Broke On: Saturday, 13 January 2024 The FAA temporarily grounded most Boeing 737 Max planes after an Alaska Airlines flight experienced a door plug blowout during descent, leading to concerns about potential hazards affecting flights from both Alaska and United Airlines. The NTSB is currently investigating the incident.