The Last Show with David Cooper
FULL EPISODE: Passing Gas, Medically Speaking - January 16, 2026
17 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Unfiltered discussions.
Chapter 2: What is the Defiance Act and how does it address deepfake issues?
Unexpected guests. No topic is off-limits. From sex and relationships to the human condition. Personal anxieties and so much more. The only talk show of its kind in the world. World This Is.
Welcome in. Happy Friday. Here are some of the topics we'll tackle tonight.
Chapter 3: How does the Canadian advocacy group aim to break up Apple's App Store?
Apple's App Store. It locks developers in. You can't sell anything on their platform without Apple's approval and without giving them a 30% cut. But should things be this way? One advocacy group is trying to get Apple to stop this behavior, but will they succeed? That is what we'll cover in 10 minutes time. Then after that... Everybody does it, nobody talks about it.
This evening, we'll get scientific about why humans pass gas, what a tooth says about your gut, why silent ones are deadly. Halfway through the hour, a gastroenterologist will teach you the biology behind your bodily functions.
Chapter 4: How can passing gas provide insights into gut health?
All right, that is some of what we'll cover tonight. That is some of what you'll learn. There will be more, but for now, let's dive in with tech stories of the day. It is time for Technology Time. We are joined by tech analyst, tech expert, and friend of mine, Carmi Levy. Some people call him Random Access Carmi.
Does anyone call you that, Carmi? No, because that shortens to Ram Carmi, which quite frankly has some implications I really don't want to get into or have to explain to my wife. So maybe Random Access Carmi would work on its own.
All right.
Chapter 5: What does fragmented sleep mean for cognitive performance in older adults?
Rack, I think. Random access. Never mind. Let's talk about this act that has been passed by the U.S. Senate. It's not signed to law yet, but it's basically trying to protect people with whom deep fakes create fake images of them, fake videos of them that are awful. We're talking like dark stuff, like pornographic, things like this, which I would want myself...
protected from that even though i don't really care if anyone sees me naked i don't want anyone to generate images of me and then i don't know blackmail my employer with them or if i'm a young person send them to all my college peers or just people can do really awful stuff with this tech and i do think there needs to be some protection
Yeah, I mean, it's an ultimate nightmare scenario, and certainly we've seen it over the past couple of weeks, specifically with Grok, where regular unsuspecting people are posting images of themselves, as people often do, to their ex-account, and then complete strangers are grabbing those images, running them through Grok, nudifying them, sexualizing them, putting them in bikinis, or taking off their clothes, and then distributing them to
Chapter 6: How are scientists treating AI models like alien life forms?
their followers, at which point they go viral.
Chapter 7: What are the financial disclosure rules impacting big streamers in Canada?
So imagine that level of digital victimization. I mean, it's a form of virtual sexual assault, and you have no control over it as a victim. And so it's called the Defiance Act, and it's probably the best acronym ever coined. It stands for disrupt explicit forged images and non-consensual edits for defiance. And it was sponsored by a Democratic senator and the Senate has now passed it unanimously.
So everybody agreed this is necessary. It ensures that anybody who's been victimized by non-consensual, sexually explicit images deepfakes of themselves, that they can take civil action against the people who have done so.
So it at least gives victims an opportunity to level the playing field to seek some kind of justice against these cretins who are doing this online, using AI image generators like Grok to persecute this kind of crime.
Now, it's weird. They're being kind of technical about it. They're not saying the very generation of it is the problem. It's like the hosting of it. Could I use this act? Suppose someone did something awful like this to me. Could I use some mechanism on X or Twitter? I'm still calling it Twitter. I don't care.
Chapter 8: What happened with the woman who brought 144 bagels from Toronto to LA?
later forever to like cause them to then immediately take down the post like what would the mechanism be for me can i just sue because that seems really difficult the average person doesn't have access to a lawyer and a lawsuit is it sort of like a digital millennium copyright act takedown
Which, for those who have no idea what I'm talking about, that's like if a pirated video gets posted to the internet or some copyrighted content gets stolen, I can just submit to YouTube and say, hey, that song that someone added to their video is mine. Please take it down. I don't have to go to the courts to do it necessarily. Is it more like that?
It's kind of like it. And what it does is it works in concert with legislation that was already on the book. So that piece of legislation was known as the Take It Down Act, and that was passed earlier last year. And that requires the platforms to remove the content when asked to do so. So it doesn't stop the content from showing up in the first place. And I think that's the it'll still occur.
Tools like rock can continue to exist. They will have no guardrails preventing this kind of thing. The law doesn't compel them to put those guardrails in place, but it at least gives options both to victims to have it to go after perpetrators with civil action,
And it also, in concert with the Take It Down Act, requires the platforms like X, like Grok, like OpenAI, like anyone, to remove the content once they become aware that it's there. So a little bit more protection now than we've had previously. still doesn't address the root cause of the problem because those image generators are still there.
And there's still no law that requires image generators to explicitly stop these kinds of assets from being created in the first place. So if Elon Musk decides to remove the guardrails, they've said that they're going to prevent Grok from doing so in future in response to this latest controversy, if they decide at some future point in time to remove it.
There's nothing in law that sanctions them accordingly. And that's a bit of a problem. It means we still have a ways to go in terms of putting laws in place. And of course, this is only in the U.S. You know, north of the border in Canada, there's really nothing equivalent.
And so if you really want to continue to perpetrate this kind of crime, you just move to Canada and keep on keep on keeping on.
Ooh, I do have a Canadian passport, but this sort of crime is not interesting to me.
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