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If AI is so smart, why does it get so much about me wrong?

Nypost · · 798 words · By Steve Cuozzo
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Nypost reports: If AI is so smart, why does it get so much about me wrong?.

Claims checked 11
Techniques found 4
Topics 2

Coverage spectrum

Coverage gap: Low Left coverage
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Center75%
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What happened

Nypost reports: If AI is so smart, why does it get so much about me wrong?.

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Common ground

Add The New York Post on GoogleContent about my demise has been greatly exaggerated.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Exaggeration / Hyperbole: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://nypost.com/2026/06/02/tech/steve-cuozzo-tests-ai-finds-it-gets-him-all-w…

psychologyPropaganda Techniques Detected

eFinder identified 4 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 90% confidence
Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
Found in this article: eFinder flagged this technique because the story's framing or source language may guide readers toward a particular interpretation. Review the claim checks and evidence below to separate what is directly supported from what is implied by wording or emphasis.
Why it matters: Recognizing loaded language helps readers compare the article's framing with the underlying facts and with coverage from other sources.
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Name Calling / Labeling 70% confidence
Attaching a negative label to a person or group to reject them without evidence.
Found in this article: eFinder flagged this technique because the story's framing or source language may guide readers toward a particular interpretation. Review the claim checks and evidence below to separate what is directly supported from what is implied by wording or emphasis.
Why it matters: Recognizing name calling / labeling helps readers compare the article's framing with the underlying facts and with coverage from other sources.
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Exaggeration / Hyperbole 80% confidence
Overstating facts or claims to create a stronger emotional response.
Found in this article: eFinder flagged this technique because the story's framing or source language may guide readers toward a particular interpretation. Review the claim checks and evidence below to separate what is directly supported from what is implied by wording or emphasis.
Why it matters: Recognizing exaggeration / hyperbole helps readers compare the article's framing with the underlying facts and with coverage from other sources.
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Oversimplification 70% confidence
Reducing a complex issue to a simplistic framing that distorts understanding.
Found in this article: eFinder flagged this technique because the story's framing or source language may guide readers toward a particular interpretation. Review the claim checks and evidence below to separate what is directly supported from what is implied by wording or emphasis.
Why it matters: Recognizing oversimplification helps readers compare the article's framing with the underlying facts and with coverage from other sources.

fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 11 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “my degree from Stony Brook University is easily found on Wikipedia”
SINGLE SOURCE
While the author claims his degree is on Wikipedia, the provided Wikipedia snippet for 'Steve Cuozzo' does not explicitly list his degree, and the 'List of Stony Brook University people' is a general list. The claim is mentioned in his own articles, but not verified by the provided Wikipedia text.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The State University of New York at Stony Brook, commonly referred to as Stony Brook University (SBU), is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York, United States, on Long Island. Along wi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stony_Brook_University
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of people connected to Stony Brook University.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stony_Brook_University…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Steven D. Cuozzo (born January 17, 1950) is an American writer, newspaper editor, restaurant critic, real estate columnist, and op-ed contributor for the New York Post.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Cuozzo
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Claim 2: “California-based Anthropic, which is valued at nearly $1 trillion, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering.”
CORROBORATED
Multiple independent news sources (CNBC and other web results) confirm that Anthropic filed for an IPO in June 2026 with a valuation of $965 billion (nearly $1 trillion).
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web search NEUTRAL — May 28, 2026 ... Anthropic is now the most valuable AI company in Silicon Valley after a new $65 billion funding round.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/28/anthropic-open-ai-startup-va…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 14, 2026 ... Anthropic just filed for an IPO at a $965B valuation — nearly a trillion-dollar AI company. Revenue hit $47B run-rate in May 2026, up from $10B ...
https://www.instagram.com/p/DZk1kptgAKe/
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 1, 2026 ... Anthropic has filed for a proposed initial public offering after raising $65 billion in private funding that will push its valuation to $965 ...
https://abc7news.com/post/anthropic-races-public-offering-de…
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Claim 3: “Claude — the marquee product of Anthropic PBC — said I had [written a cookbook, lived in Greenwich Village, and had children]”
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This is a personal account of an AI hallucination. No independent sources confirm that Claude made these specific claims about Steve Cuozzo.
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web search NEUTRAL — Claude is an AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT, capable of writing, coding, conducting research, and having conversations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(AI)
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web search NEUTRAL — Claude is a next generation AI assistant built by Anthropic and trained to be safe, accurate, and secure to help you do your best work.
https://claude.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — What should I use Claude for? How much does it cost to use? Sign in to Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant for problem solvers.
https://claude.ai/
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Claim 4: “Gemini AI claimed I “co-authored” a 1990 book — “Power Partners: How Two-Career Couples Can Play to Win””
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding Gemini AI's claims about the book 'Power Partners'.
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Claim 5: “I’ve written about Herald Towers at least three times, most recently in January when I reported TJ Maxx is opening its first Big Apple store there in 10 years.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that Steve Cuozzo reported on TJ Maxx opening its first new NYC store in 10 years at Herald Towers in January 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Ritz Tower is a luxury residential building at 465 Park Avenue on the corner of East 57th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It was built from 1925 to 1926 as an apartm…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritz_Tower
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Trump Plaza is a 36-story cooperative apartment and retail building at 167 East 61st Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. The property, designed by Philip Birnbaum and named aft…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Plaza_(New_York_City)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The original World Trade Center (WTC) was a complex of seven buildings in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Built primarily between 1966 and 1975, it was dedicated on April 4…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_(1973–2001)
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Claim 6: “Chat GPT, owned by Open AI”
VERIFIED BY REFERENCE
Wikipedia and multiple other sources explicitly state that ChatGPT was developed by and is owned by OpenAI.
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web search NEUTRAL — ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI. Originally released in November 2022, the product uses large language models—specifically generative pre-trained transforme…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT
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web search NEUTRAL — What company owns ChatGPT? As for "Who is Chat GPT owned by?", it is owned by OpenAI and was funded by various investors and donors during its development. Despite this, the open-source model enables …
https://stormgain.com/blog/who-owns-and-who-created-chat-gpt
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web search NEUTRAL — ChatGPT is owned by OpenAI, the company that developed and publicly released on November 30, 2022. Using the language model, you can compose articles, social media posts, essays, code, emails, and mor…
https://www.zinavo.com/blog/chatgpt-openais-conversational-a…
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Claim 7: “My 1996 “It’s Alive: How America’s Oldest Newspaper Cheated Death and Why It Matters,” pops up hundreds of times in any cursory web search and on Amazon.com.”
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The provided web search results for 'Steve' and 'Steve Jobs' are irrelevant to the book title mentioned. No evidence was found confirming the authorship of 'It's Alive: How America's Oldest Newspaper Cheated Death and Why It Matters'.
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web search NEUTRAL — At its core stands the character of Steve, the head teacher, as he faces a long, emotionally charged day filled with professional and psychological challenges within a tense and complex environment.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32985279/
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web search NEUTRAL — Steve had its world premiere in the Platform Prize section of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, and was released in select cinemas in the United Kingdom and the United States on 19 Septemb…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_(2025_film)
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web search NEUTRAL — A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with his early business partner Steve Wozniak as Apple Computer Company in 1976.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
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Claim 8: “A recent Chat GPT post summarizing one of my articles referred to me as the “late” writer Steve Cuozzo”
SINGLE SOURCE
The claim is a personal anecdote from Steve Cuozzo. While web search results discuss ChatGPT's general limitations and traffic, there is no independent third-party source confirming this specific hallucination occurred, other than the author's own reporting of it.
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web search NEUTRAL — Table of contentsChatGPT limitation 3: Lack of human insightOther interesting articles
https://www.scribbr.com/ai-tools/chatgpt-limitations/
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web search NEUTRAL — How to Use ChatGPT’s Search Tool. To immediately try out this update, you need to pay for one of OpenAI’s subscriptions. If you have the ChatGPT Plus plan for $20 a month or ChatGPT Teams through work…
https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-ai-search-update-openai/
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web search NEUTRAL — Referral traffic from ChatGPT to news and media websites has nearly doubled in just four months, according to data from Similarweb shared with Digiday. In January 2025, ChatGPT referred around 123.2 m…
https://www.contentgrip.com/chatgpt-referral-traffic-doubles…
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Claim 9: “The pope warned us to beware AI’s dehumanizing, “Tower of Babel” effect.”
VERIFIED BY REFERENCE
Wikipedia confirms that Pope Leo XIV published an encyclical titled 'Magnifica humanitas' on May 25, 2026, specifically concerned with 'safeguarding the human person in the age of artificial intelligence'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Magnifica humanitas (lit. 'magnificent humanity') is the first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV, concerned with "safeguarding the human person in the age of artificial intelligence". It was published on 25 …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnifica_humanitas
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ogham (also ogam and ogom, OG-əm, Modern Irish: [ˈoː(ə)mˠ]; Middle Irish: ogum, ogom, later ogam [ˈɔɣəmˠ]) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the early Irish language (in the "orth…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost, pronounced PREE-vohst; September 14, 1955) is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City. Born in Chicago, Prevost became a friar in the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XIV
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Claim 10: “Claude... claimed, “Cuozzo authored a book called ‘The Finger Food Cookbook’ published in 1997.””
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 11: ““Power Partners” was written by my wife Jane Hershey Cuozzo and S. Diane Graham, as Wikipedia correctly says.”
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm the authorship of 'Power Partners'.
info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.