737: Monetizable Content

737: Monetizable Content

From Grumpy Old Geeks by Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

March 13, 2026 · 1h 4m · Episode 737

About this episode

The episode discusses recent developments in online safety for children, AI technology, and the implications of AI in military operations and social media.

In this week's show we start with FOLLOW UP: The world keeps trying to protect kids online — Indonesia just joined Australia, Spain, and Malaysia in banning social media for under-16s, while COPPA 2.0 sailed through the US Senate unanimously. Meanwhile, Roblox is using AI to clean up its chat, because apparently "Hurry TF up" is the hill they've chosen to die on — even as they're still dealing with the whole "pedophile problem" thing from January. On the AI copyright front, Gracenote is the latest company to sue OpenAI for helping itself to proprietary data, joining a growing queue of plaintiffs who apparently didn't get the memo that everything is training data now. IN THE NEWS: Anthropic is suing the Pentagon after being labeled a "supply chain risk" — apparently because the CEO said AI shouldn't be used for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons, which the Trump administration heard as fighting words. The delicious irony: the Pentagon is still running Claude in active operations while trying to phase it out. Speaking of active operations, investigators now think a missile strike on an Iranian girls' school may have been triggered by bad AI-generated intelligence from that…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jason DeFillippo, Brian Schulmeister, Dave Bittner

Topics covered

  • online safety
  • AI technology
  • social media regulation
  • copyright issues
  • military applications of AI
  • fake news

Keywords

  • online safety
  • AI
  • social media
  • copyright
  • military
  • fake news
  • Roblox
  • Gracenote
  • Pentagon

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Indonesia, Australia, Spain, Malaysia, Roblox, OpenAI, Gracenote, Pentagon, Meta, Claude

Places: Iran

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