Kate Knibbs

Kate Knibbs is a reporter at WIRED, where she covers artificial intelligence and its impact on society. She previously worked as an investigative reporter for The Verge, where she covered technology and politics. Her work has also appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, and Gizmodo.

Biography:  https://www.wired.com/author/kate-knibbs/

82%

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 mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

85%

Examples:

  • Many leading generative AI companies are under intense scrutiny for how they train their tools.
  • The music industry has officially declared war on Suno and Udio, two of the most prominent AI music generators.

Conflicts of Interest

100%

Examples:

  • The companies have not publicly disclosed what they trained their generators on. Ed Newton-Rex, a former AI executive who now runs the ethical AI nonprofit Fairly Trained, has written extensively about his experiments with Suno and Udio; Newton-Rex found that he could generate music that bears a striking resemblance to copyright songs.

Contradictions

89%

Examples:

  • RIAA represents major record labels including Sony Music Entertainment, UMG Recordings and Warner Records.
  • The music labels claim that Suno and Udio generated songs that bear a striking resemblance to copyrighted work from artists including ABBA and Jason Derulo.

Deceptions

60%

Examples:

  • It also offers a side-by-side comparison of music and lyrics.
  • Unlicensed services like Suno and Udio that claim it’s ‘fair’ to copy an artist’s life’s work and exploit it for their own profit without consent or pay set back the promise of genuinely innovative AI for us all.

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