March 03
2023
March 03
2023
Hard Fork
with
Casey Newton, David Yaffe Bellany, Kevin Roose
The episode surveys a fast-moving week in AI, including Snapchat’s new MyAI chatbot and Meta’s renewed push into generative AI, with the hosts debating safety, teen mental health, and how AI could flood social platforms with synthetic content that’s harder to moderate and further shifts feeds away from friends and family. They also discuss reports that Elon Musk may launch an “anti-woke” alternative to ChatGPT, using it as a lens on how AI systems’ guardrails and political perspectives could splinter into competing models. New York Times reporter David Yaffe-Bellany then updates the FTX case, detailing added charges, guilty pleas from key insiders, efforts to claw back missing funds, and how regulators’ tougher stance—especially the SEC’s view of most tokens as securities—could reshape or ...