OpenAI Calls a ‘Code Red’ + Which Model Should I Use? + The Hard Fork Review of Slop

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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“For OpenAI to realize its ambitions, it is not going to be enough for them to make a model that is as good as Gemini 3. They need to be able to leapfrog it again.”

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0:00.0	Casey, how's it going?
0:02.1	Good morning, Kevin.
0:03.3	I am doing well, as well as can be expected, given that I had a colonoscopy yesterday.
0:09.5	Yes, I heard about this. How did it go?
0:11.0	Well, I got a clean bill of health. I will say, though, there was one moment during the procedure that was sort of alarming to me.
0:18.3	What was that?
0:18.7	Well, I had met, you know, the various nurses and the doctors and
0:21.9	everyone was so friendly, you know, and was introducing themselves. But as they sort of put in the
0:27.0	medicine to make me kind of go under, I noticed that there was one medical professional who was
0:32.2	against the wall and she was scrolling through her phone. And the last thought I had before I went under was,
0:38.7	I really hope she's not looking up how to do a colonoscopy.
0:42.5	You know what I mean?
0:43.9	Because she kind of had that look on her face.
0:46.4	Like, I need to jog my memory about what I'm doing here.
0:50.3	And I thought, oh, God, I hope she already knows.
0:53.0	No, she was on TikTok.
0:55.0	She was live streaming your colonoscopy to her hundreds of thousands of followers.
0:59.2	I had that thought.
1:00.3	I was like, could we get more or fewer viewers to the YouTube channel if we went live with my colonoscopy?
1:06.7	They're always saying, be authentic.
1:08.3	Exactly.
1:08.9	Bring your whole self to work.
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