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Matt Yglesias: AI Broke My Internet Optimism- The Fifth Column
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13:05Now PlayingThis is an excerpt from a Members Only episode #321 of the Fifth Column. Watch the full episode only on Substack
Matt Yglesias explains why his early optimism about the internet has made him more skeptical of the AI boom, from social media’s broken promises to labor panic, data centers, and the students booing Eric Schmidt while probably using AI to graduate.
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Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch, The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally themselves.
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