Kevin Roose,

Kevin Roose is a technology columnist for The New York Times, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a co-host of the Times tech podcast, “Hard Fork.” He covers technologies that influence our lives, our culture and our society. Recently, he has focused on AI and its implications but has also reported on social media, online extremism, cryptocurrency and other subjects. Roose has been a columnist at The Times since 2017 and previously worked as a columnist at New York magazine and the host of “Real Future,” a documentary TV series about technology and innovation. He has written three books, including his latest, “Futureproof,” a survival guide for humans in the age of artificial intelligence. Roose lives in the Bay Area with his family.

Biography:  https://www.nytimes.com/by/kevin-roose

48%

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

85%

Examples:

  • He said he was given a script that was 15 pages of AI-generated gibberish
  • It is some AI-generated art on the walls, a couple of balloons.
  • The generative AI art was good enough that people thought, we're actually going to see a fantastical wonderland of candy when we go to this event.
  • The part that got me was, apparently, the AI that had generated the script.

Conflicts of Interest

0%

Examples:

No current examples available.

Contradictions

85%

Examples:

  • Google CEO Sundar Pichai's AI strategy is now unmoored
  • Imagine tool generates diverse group of founding fathers but also produces problematic results such as Black popes and Asian women in football uniforms

Deceptions

60%

Examples:

  • The AI-generated art on the website and at the event led people to believe that they would be seeing a fantastical wonderland of candy when in reality it was just a warehouse with balloons and jelly beans.
  • The event was marketed as a Willy Wonka-themed wonderland for kids when it was not affiliated with the Wonka brand.
  • The person who played Willy Wonka was given a script that was 15 pages of AI-generated gibberish.

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