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Ethan Mollick analyzes WIRED's AI coverage vs. early internet reporting

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Ethan Mollick, a longtime reader and writer for WIRED, explored whether the publication's coverage of the AI era differs from its reporting on the early internet. Through experiments using Astra, Mollick found that AI coverage does indeed differ, though the interpretation of these differences depends on one's perspective on AI. AI

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Ethan Mollick analyzes WIRED's AI coverage vs. early internet reporting

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    As a longtime reader (and writer of two small pieces in the 1990s) of WIRED, I was curious if the coverage of the AI era really does differ from its coverage of

    As a longtime reader (and writer of two small pieces in the 1990s) of WIRED, I was curious if the coverage of the AI era really does differ from its coverage of the early internet. A couple of experiments with Astra shows it does. Interpretation depends on your view of AI, though

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