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9to5Mac Daily: July 13, 2026 – Apple sues OpenAI ⁠47%

By Seth Kurkowski⁠0%

7/13/2026, 1:59:45 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Overconfidence Bias, and Optimism Bias, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 73.2% saturation with 131 hits. Analysis detected 324 faulty-reasoning hits from 179 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 48.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠47% (11,604 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 53.00% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 2.7%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 2.2%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 2.8%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.3%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 12.8%Seth Kurkowski: 4.3%9to5Mac: 2.9%Overconfidence Bias12.8%This article: 20.7%Seth Kurkowski: 6.9%9to5Mac: 5.3%Framing Effect20.7%This article: 2.8%Seth Kurkowski: 0.9%9to5Mac: 1.3%Loss Aversion2.8%This article: 5.0%Seth Kurkowski: 1.7%9to5Mac: 0.7%Status Quo Bias5.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.0%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 12.8%Seth Kurkowski: 4.3%9to5Mac: 3.4%Optimism Bias12.8%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 1.9%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 9.5%Seth Kurkowski: 6.5%9to5Mac: 4.6%Negativity Bias9.5%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.7%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.4%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.3%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 4.5%Seth Kurkowski: 1.5%9to5Mac: 0.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias4.5%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 3.5%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 1.8%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.1%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 3.6%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 1.4%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.6%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 4.8%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 11.2%Seth Kurkowski: 3.7%9to5Mac: 0.8%Bandwagon11.2%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 2.2%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 1.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.0%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 2.4%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 12.8%Seth Kurkowski: 4.3%9to5Mac: 1.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation)12.8%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 9.5%Seth Kurkowski: 3.2%9to5Mac: 2.4%Unattributed Quote9.5%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.4%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 6.0%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 6.1%Seth Kurkowski: 2.0%9to5Mac: 2.1%Indoctrination6.1%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Seth Kurkowski: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 73.2%Seth Kurkowski: 40.6%9to5Mac: 15.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…73.2%

179 words analyzed.

Speakers

6speakers8.4%attributed speech164writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 39 words • 100.0% coverageBackblaze • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 100.0% coverageApple Podcasts • 2 words • 0.0% coverageOvercast • 1 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageSpotify • 1 words • 0.0% coverageTuneIn • 1 words • 0.0% coverageGoogle Podcasts • 2 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 3 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Backblaze

100%flagged-word coverage
8 attributed words53% of attributed speech91% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +25.0 ptsWriter: 75.0%Backblaze: 100.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote-10.4 ptsWriter: 10.4%Backblaze: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-6.7 ptsWriter: 6.7%Backblaze: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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