WIRED co-founder Kevin Kelly agrees: Its AI coverage has lost its internet-era optimism
Research shows WIRED's AI coverage differs from its early internet coverage, and co-founder Kevin Kelly replied that it feels about right.
By Ryan Merket · Published
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Why it matters
The exchange shows how the press frame built for the internet is being tested against AI, with a WIRED co-founder publicly agreeing that the magazine's AI-era coverage reads differently from the era he edited.
Ethan Mollick (@emollick) used Astra to test a hunch built over three decades of reading WIRED, and he says the magazine covering AI is not writing the way it wrote about the early internet.…
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