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Hard Fork

What Trump 2.0 Means for Tech + A.I. Made Me Basic + HatGPT!

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.55.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

A shake up is coming for Silicon Valley.

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0:00.0

Casey, you sent me a very confusing link the other day,

0:06.5

which was that we are apparently the inspiration for a line of men's underwear.

0:11.2

What's going on?

0:12.6

So if you go over to Amazon, you can find an item that is called

0:19.2

the Casey Kevin Men's Lace, G-Strings, and Thog's sexy lingerie.

0:24.8

And of course, that was very confusing as to why our names are now a lingerie brand.

0:31.4

Wait, how did you find this? Were you just browsing for things called Casey Kevin on Amazon?

0:36.1

Well, first of all, I'm always looking for branded lingerie in our name, so I just sort

0:39.1

have an active Google search for that.

0:41.1

But then also, a hard forked listener said it to me and said, hey, like, were you aware of

0:46.6

this?

0:47.4

And so I thought about it for about two seconds.

0:49.1

And then I continued looking through this webpage, and I realized the reason that it's

0:52.5

called Casey Kevin is because they can then abbreviate it CK all over the packaging and thus compete with

0:59.5

Calvin Klein, the number one underwear brand. And so it's essentially, our names are being used

1:05.5

to perpetrator fraud. Well, have you investigated these at all? Do they look like good underwear?

1:12.0

I'm wearing them now. They're incredibly comfortable. And they're very breathable fabric.

1:20.9

I'm Kevin Ruse. I'm a tech columnist at the New York Times. I'm Casey Noon from Platformer.

1:25.4

And this is Hard Fork. This week, what Trump 2.0 means for tech.

1:30.1

Then, the Times Kashmir Hill joins us to talk about the week she spent letting AI make every decision for her.

1:36.4

And finally, some election free at GPT. Well, Casey, where are you? How are you?

1:54.8

Well, Kevin, I am at home in Southern California with my family.

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