The People vs. Meta + Marques Brownlee on YouTube and Future Tech + DALL-E 3 Arrives

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Dozens of state attorneys general have sued Meta, claiming the company knowingly created features that induce “extended, addictive and compulsive social media use” among teenagers and children. In a country without wide-reaching internet regulations, are lawsuits the way to reign in tech companies? Then, for our first episode on YouTube, we talk with the YouTuber and tech reviewer Marques Brownlee about how the platform has changed, and the future tech he’s excited about. And finally, artificial intelligence image generators are getting scary good. Casey tells us what he’s been using them for.

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0:00.0	I'm Kevin Rus, tech columnist for The New York Times.
0:02.8	I'm Casey Newton from Platformer,
0:04.3	and you're listening to and watching HardFork.
0:08.1	We have to probably change that, huh, now.
0:10.2	Oh yeah, because it can't just be your listening
0:11.7	at HardFork.
0:12.6	Yeah, you're consuming HardFork.
0:14.2	You are platform agnostically making your way
0:18.3	through the HardFork media product.
0:19.9	You are experiencing HardFork.
0:22.0	You're experiencing HardFork.
0:23.2	I like that.
0:24.0	Or what about this is HardFork?
0:27.1	That's a great one.
0:28.0	I like that.
0:28.8	I don't hear you say it.
0:30.1	I'm Kevin Rus, tech columnist for The New York Times.
0:31.9	I'm Casey Newton from Platformer,
0:33.4	and this is HardFork.
0:35.9	That's not an amazing idea.
0:37.0	That's just it, right there.
0:38.5	This week, for the video debut of our show on YouTube,
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