The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce are joined by policy reporter Makena Kelly, who is on the ground in Washington for the House Energy and Commerce Committee's hearing on TikTok. Later, we dive into all the other news from this week, from Google's release of Bard to OpenAI's rapid expansion of ChatGPT. It was a big week. #tiktok #technology #podcast TikTok ban hearing: all the news on the US’s crackdown on the video platform: https://www.theverge.com/23651507/tiktok-ban-us-news TikTok bans deepfakes of nonpublic figures and fake endorsements in rule refresh: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/21/23648099/tiktok-content-moderation-rules-deepfakes-ai Google opens early access to its ChatGPT rival Bard — here are our first impressions: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/21/23649794/google-chatgpt-rival-bard-ai-chatbot-access-hands-on Google says its Bard chatbot isn't a search engine — so what is it?: https://www.theverge.com/23649897/google-bard-chatbot-search-engine Testing Google Bard: the chatbot doesn’t love me, but it’s still pretty weird: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/21/23650472/google-bard-ai-chatbot-hands-on-test Google and Microsoft’s chatbots are already citing one another in a misinformation shitshow: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/22/23651564/google-microsoft-bard-bing-chatbots-misinformation Sundar Pichai expects that ‘things will go wrong’ with Bard: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/21/23650498/sundar-pichai-expects-that-things-will-go-wrong-with-bard Can AI generate a way to pay for itself?: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/23/23651976/ai-money-investment-vc-hype 00:00 - Intro 01:15 - TikTok hearings before the House Energy and Commerce Committee 52:04 - Google Bard, and our lightning round The Vergecast Podcast: https://pod.link/430333725 Decoder with Nilay Patel: http://apple.co/3v29nDc More about our podcasts: https://www.theverge.com/podcasts Shop The Verge's merch here: https://shop.theverge.com/ Like The Verge on Facebook: https://goo.gl/2P1aGc Follow on Twitter: https://goo.gl/XTWX61 Follow on Instagram: https://goo.gl/7ZeLvX Read More: http://www.theverge.com Community guidelines: http://bit.ly/2D0hlAv Wallpapers from The Verge: https://bit.ly/2xQXYJr Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XTWX61 Follow on Instagram: http://goo.gl/7ZeLvX Listen to our podcasts: https://www.theverge.com/podcasts Read More: http://www.theverge.com