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Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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"I've always said if you have a ChatGPT subscription and a hose, you can get very far in this life.”

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0:00.0	What's going on with you? Well, you know, I'm having sort of a weird week so I came in on Monday and to the office of the New York Times in San Francisco and someone said there's a there's a naked man outside the office who's ranting and I said well how is Casey and
0:18.6	By the way that you should know that we taped the podcast on Wednesdays not Mondays
0:23.0	and then that we taped the podcast on Wednesdays, not Mondays. And then I learned that it was actually the part of the St.
0:27.6	Stupid's Day parade, do you know about this?
0:29.4	Wait, I've not heard of this.
0:30.6	This is apparently an annual tradition in San Francisco where some big goofballs get
0:34.8	together on April Fool's Day, April 1st, and they parade through the streets of San Francisco
0:40.0	holding like nonsensical signs and some of them apparently are naked and this is what was going on.
0:45.0	I love this town so much.
0:47.0	This town is so back.
0:48.0	The things that happen in San Francisco you wouldn't even believe and they're wonderful. I'm Kevin Ruus, a tech columnist at the New York Times.
0:57.0	I'm Casey Newton from Platformer.
1:01.0	And this is hard for it.
1:02.0	This week how AI is affecting the economy.
1:05.2	Then artist Paul Triller joins to discuss how we used open AI's SORA tool to explore the future of filmmaking.
1:12.0	And finally, a cyber sneak attack
1:14.5	that could have brought down the web,
1:15.9	but was caught in the nick of time,
1:18.2	not by Kevin.
1:19.2	Not by me. Hey, before we get into our stories this week, we just wanted to remind people, we're on
1:35.5	YouTube.
1:36.5	Some of what we talk about in the show this week is going to be better to see than to hear.
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