And therein lies the problem with their business model, at least as far as use by the general public goes. Most people aren't going to earn any money back making AI generated songs. Is it worth subscribing just to make a few silly meme songs every once in awhile? Probably not.

So, we're pretty much stuck with this stuff being used in the same way Coke used AI to make their holiday ad - they could've hired real artists, but they didn't.

The days when you could turn a silly idea into a silly song with a prompt for free are probably not long for this world. Of course, this is the situation with most AI tools, eventually the companies want to start seeing some black ink.

A lot of today's pop acts involve collaborating on the lyrics, sung over backing tracks assembled on a computer using sample loops. What AI music generation brings to the table is you don't need to be wealthy or have industry connections to turn your idea into a song. Of course, without those wealth and industry connections, you're not going to be selling the end result anyway, so making AI songs is mostly just limited in usefulness as something for your own amusement. Also, an AI "band" can't go on tour.

Sure, there's the possibility that companies will pull a Coca-Cola and use AI tools rather than hiring actual artists when they need a jingle or some background music for a TV show, but that's a future that's coming for every job capable of being automated.

Just wait until you find out where Elon Musk's trans daughter went to school. Hint: It wasn't public schools.

Also, if there's been any societal shift towards LGBTQ+ acceptance among today's youth (it's been a long, long time since I was in school), here's another fact that's going to rattle your cage - it's not being pushed by the teachers, but by peers. You might not remember what it was like to be young, but those of us who haven't lost too many of those memories to senescence can tell you that teachers have never been the cool trend setters that kids desire to emulate. Think about it - if teachers really were so effective influencers of youth behavior, smoking/vaping, teenage pregnancy, drug use, bullying, etc. wouldn't exist. Hell, we had to pass laws banning phones in classes because teachers couldn't even successfully get kids to put their phones away.

Now, what could've given youth the idea that social acceptance of LGBTQ+ individuals is a normal thing? Probably social media, accessed through those devices that damn near every parent has provided their kids.

I realize not reading the article is something of a /. tradition, but I've literally quoted part of the summary where they're pretending that nothing is done to mitigate brute-force attacks (which as you rightfully pointed out, has been recognized as threat for as long as there has been an infosec industry).

I wouldn't be wearing my captain obvious hat if the article hasn't pretended that brute force attacks are some kind of scary new threat, of which there is absolutely no defense besides making your password contain a minimum of one each of the following attribute:

An uppercase letter
A lowercase letter
A special character
Your favorite emoji
A DNA sample from your pet
A short essay on whether you think streaming services are fairly priced
Cannot reuse a previously used password

This is why anyone with half a brain rate limits failed password attempts and then locks the account after too many failures. If your code allows an attacker to just hammer the authentication API, you suck as a programmer and should feel bad.

Our cheapest EV starts at $30k for a Nissan Leaf. No wonder I've been seeing more people riding around on e-scooters lately.

Only on Slashdot can you get modded down for pointing out that there are a lot of Walmart stores.

And that map is from like 6 years ago, so there's probably even more than what's shown. So my point still stands, if none of your grocery stores take credit cards, where out in BFE do you live that there isn't even a Walmart?

We're sliding down the slippery slope.

A few states already did the age check thing with porn, and the SCOTUS ruled that was just fine by the 1A. Now comes the ID just to prove you're not a kid, in order to participate in social media.

It's never been about protecting kids, it's about being able to eliminate online anonymity.

Both iOS and Android have built-in parental screen time limit functionality. Why is the government getting involved?

I think this would hit a lot harder on Reddit. Slashdot is full of us olds who have lived through the Great Recession and look at Trump's economic fuckery like Florida Man would an approaching hurricane. "Bring it bitch, we've seen worse."

Social media amplifies anecdotes about people being bad with their money, giving the impression that they're eclipsing those who are genuinely struggling due to low income, but the numbers don't lie. Half of all income earners bring home less than the US median income, which is what makes it the median income.

For a lot of Americans, "local supermarket" means Walmart, and they take everything.

How can you make money on people defaulting on their bills?

Flip foreclosures.
Flipping high value items people list cheaply on Facebook Market out of desperation.
Open your own pawn shop / "we buy gold" business.
Get a job as a debt collector.
Become a repo man.
Write a "How to Survive Crippling Debt" book.

See, what you do is put your Bitcoin heater on credit, then use the Bitcoin it mines to buy the groceries.

Obligatory meme image.

Florida's schools have been underfunded for as long as I've lived here, and that's been awhile. The overcrowding problem has also gotten worse, too. I'd venture a guess that distractions from smartphones also factored in a bit as well, since it's only just recently that lawmakers have begun to acknowledge that kids shouldn't be playing with their phones during class. All of those things have been demonstrated to have negative effects on academic performance.

But sure, blame it on a lack of teaching cursive, or Tylenol, or whatever else fits your correlation-may-as-well-be-causation narrative best.