Samsung's fake moon photos and Silicon Valley Bank's collapse

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Samsung faking photos of the moon on its phones, what happened with Silicon Valley Bank, and hottest topic of the season: ChatGPT and AI. This episode was recorded live at SXSW 2023. Further reading: Samsung caught faking zoom photos of the Moon Silicon Valley Bank has failed The tech industry moved fast and broke its most prestigious bank Bing, Bard, and ChatGPT: AI chatbots are rewriting the internet Email us at vergeast@theverge.com or call us on the Vergecast Hotline at 866-VERGE11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of Over-N-Brand activations.
0:06.7	I'm your friend David Pierce and I am at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.
0:10.8	Just to give you a mental image of exactly what that means, I am at the corner of Fourth
0:14.6	Street and Congress Avenue, one of the main parts of downtown Austin and I'm at a Porsche
0:19.3	booth.
0:20.3	This is big beautiful blue booth with a bunch of porches inside.
0:23.4	One of them has an inflatable duct sticking out for reasons I don't totally understand.
0:27.4	And then just for fun, out front there is a roughly 25 foot tall, Optimus Prime statue
0:33.8	that is just unbelievably lifelike.
0:36.0	Right next to an unbelievably lifelike and probably 15 feet tall, King Kong statue,
0:41.1	it's the Porsche booth.
0:42.1	I don't understand it either, but I do know that I just was forced to move by somebody
0:46.0	who wanted to take pictures.
0:47.3	So I guess it's working.
0:48.3	Anyway, we have an awesome show for you today.
0:50.5	It's actually an episode we recorded live at South by Southwest at Slack's HQ in Austin.
0:56.5	It's a fun show.
0:57.5	You give us a live audience.
0:58.8	Things are going to get kind of weird.
0:59.9	We talk a lot about the moon and your photos of the moon and whether if you use a Samsung
1:04.6	phone to take photos of the moon, you're actually taking photos of the moon or photos at
1:10.0	all, it gets really heavy, really fast.
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