TWiT 1074: Chicken Mating Harnesses - Supreme Court Rules AI Art Not Copyrightable
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2026
⏱️ 187 minutes
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Summary
Between copyright-free AI art, government blacklists, and data brokers run amok, this episode spotlights the fierce new battles for privacy, agency, and control in our digital lives. Plus, hear Cory Doctorow break down why the AI gold rush may be headed for a colossal crash.
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- If AI is a weapon, why don't we regulate it like one?
- Sam Altman's greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him
- ChatGPT user base surges 350% in 18 months as it nears 1 billion weekly active users
- AI-generated art can't be copyrighted after the Supreme Court declines to review the rule
- Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens
- Grammarly is using our identities without permission
- Alphabet Grants Sundar Pichai Stock Awards Worth Up to $686 Million
- Google vs Epic Games ends with Android app stores, lower fees
- Google Ends Its 30% App Store Fee, Welcomes Third-Party App Stores - Slashdot
- Xbox CEO confirms next-gen 'Project Helix' console will play PC games
- Motorola Partners With GrapheneOS - Slashdot
- Data Broker Breaches Fueled Nearly $21 Billion in Identity-Theft Losses
- CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples' Movements
- Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester
- COPPA 2.0 passes the Senate again, unanimously this time
- South Korean Police Lose Seized Crypto By Posting Password Online
- Iranian drone strikes at Amazon sites raise alarms over protecting data centers
- Charter Gets FCC Permission To Buy Cox, Become Largest ISP In the US
- How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents
- Anne Wojcicki's Plan to Revive 23andMe: Rich Donors, Improved Tests—and Maybe Even MAHA
- Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom
- 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
- Seagate Just Unleashed 44TB Hard Drives
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Joey de Villa and Cory Doctorow
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twit. Corey Doctor-Roe is here. So is Joey DeVilla. They worked together in Toronto years ago. It's a big reunion. We will talk about Sundar Pichai's big payday. You can't copyright AIR and be careful of those meta glasses. Somebody in Kenya might be watching your poop. Twit is next. |
| 0:21.5 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:23.2 | From people you trust. |
| 0:25.7 | This is Twit. |
| 0:32.3 | This is Twit, this week in Tech. |
| 0:35.4 | Episode 174, recorded Sunday, March 8th, 2026. Chicken d'clock. is twit this week in tech episode one thousand seventy four recorded sunday march eighth |
| 0:39.4 | twenty 26 chicken mating harnesses it's time for twit this week at tech the show we cover the |
| 0:46.2 | week's tech news and we got a bumper crop today of commentators uh we got jo DeVilla on he is of course the |
| 0:57.0 | star bobble nerdy.com and AI developer advocate hello Joey hey there glad to |
| 1:02.7 | be here you brought along last time you were on you said you know I used to |
| 1:06.9 | work with Cory Doctoro back in Toronto and Toronto and I used to work with Cory Doctoro back in Toronto. Toronto. |
| 1:11.6 | Toronto. |
| 1:12.6 | And I wonder if we could have a show together. |
| 1:16.6 | I said, well, hell yeah, let's get Cory Doctor O on. |
| 1:19.6 | Here he is. |
| 1:20.6 | This is, by the way, Joey, since you last knew, Corey, he has become a rather a bit of a celebrity, |
| 1:26.6 | thanks to his book in Shittification. |
| 1:28.9 | Famous for 15 megabytes. |
| 1:30.3 | Made him. |
| 1:31.3 | He's written many a great book, but in Shittification is taken the world by storm. |
| 1:36.3 | And as a result, he is speaking to the, in the corridors of power. |
| 1:40.3 | Very much so. |
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