If it eats the lawyer, most of us will probably be fine and have a good laugh about it over a delightful plate of Chilean Sea Bass.
However, if it launches the nuclear warheads, we're fucked.

Mmm. AI generated sandwiches.

The very old school synthesized music still required traditional music composition skills. Yes, some people did try to use MOD files as a crude loop based format, but due to memory and bit sample depth constraints, the end result was usually pretty rough.

If you have any recent-ish Apple hardware kicking around, it actually includes a loop based music editor: Garage Band. My point really wasn't that this is a less legitimate way to make music, just that the end result isn't typically what we think of when we think of a music composition. You don't get traditional notation that you could hand to a band and have them play your song. You end up with an arrangement of samples, which can then be rendered by the software to a completed audio file.

That being said, people have come up with instruments that do let you play loops and samples live. It looks like this. Yeah, that still takes skill, not gonna dispute it.

You can tell this one spent his childhood expanding his spider collection.

Kids in suburbs "socialize" with great enthusiasm. They are constantly at one another's houses, or borrowing mom's crossover to go somewhere with their friends. Before they can drive, mom is wrecking the planet driving her progeny all over creation for every kind of sportsball you've ever heard of, and a number you haven't. The parents all have each others phones because they're constantly trying to figure out which friend their kid has absconded with, or which one gave them the pot they got caught with. Phone storage is permanently at 100% capacity because they're filled with stupid videos of their friends.

Honestly guy, the more you say here, the more painfully obvious it is that you have lived a sad, lonely life.

Maybe. I suppose that's a side benefit that some are excited about, and the worst of those will abuse it. Mostly these laws are symbolic: the ruling class doesn't really care about any of this. They're busy arranging government contracts for their spouse's private business, getting their kids no-show non-profit chairmanship jobs, etc. The "ban" is their sop to the latest moral panic, and enforcing it generally would be nasty, so they just enact it with no real enforcement plan and get back to lining their pockets. Whenever some kid causes a headline making outrage, the narrative will include accusations of negligence with regard to social media bans, and they'll persecute the kid's parents, but beyond that nothing of note changes.

I suppose if one were to ignore 250 years of constitutional law

What "Constitutional Law"? Citation needed. Needed so badly, I'll do it for you:

Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967)

Established the “reasonable expectation of privacy” test. The Court held that what a person knowingly exposes to the public is not protected by the Fourth Amendment, laying the foundation for warrantless visual observation of people in public places.

United States v. Knotts, 460 U.S. 276 (1983)

Held that police may use a beeper (tracking device) to follow a vehicle on public roads without a warrant. A person traveling on public thoroughfares has no reasonable expectation of privacy in their movements from one place to another; visual surveillance (or technological aids that merely enhance it) is not a Fourth Amendment “search.”

United States v. Jones, 565 U.S. 400 (2012)

While ruling that prolonged GPS tracking of a vehicle constitutes a search requiring a warrant (because of the physical attachment of the device), the Court reaffirmed that short-term visual or technological monitoring of movements on public roads remains permissible without a warrant under the principles of Knotts.

Oh, wait...

IIRC, there was a real band playing the Gorillaz shows behind the curtain with the cartoon simians.

I'm really not sure how you interpreted my analogy of a hypothetical AI song being performed live into a rant against major pop artists. I was specifically saying this is just business as usual in the industry and really makes little difference whether the song originated from a loop-based editor or spat out as some AI slop. If it became popular, the path to actually earning some real profit from it (since only the top tier of artists actually earn any money from album sales) would still look very similar to how other artists perform their work live.

The vast majority of human generated art doesn't find a marketable audience either. If you've ever gone to a concert with a forgettable opening act where people would rather futz on their phones than listen to the band, you've seen it firsthand.

The irony is, if someone did have a big hit with their AI generated slop and somehow against all odds, there was demand for a live tour, they actually would need to get some human performers to put on the show.

Since we're already down this rabbit hole, it's worth mentioning that big acts like Taylor Swift already do something similar. A lot of her songs began life in loop-based music editors (which operate by mixing sampled recordings of beats, riffs, bass lines, melodies, etc., rather than traditional notation), and it's only after the fact that actual musicians do the painstaking job of remaking them, by ear, into something that can be performed by a live band with real instruments.

No grandpa, kids go tear assing around on their e-bikes now.

Ironically, Florida does have a social media ban for under 14s, but it's mostly toothless. So, I wouldn't be to quick to jump to the conclusion that these troublemakers did this because their doomscrolling was taken away.

Gee, how could Iran find allies in Minnesota, lol

I mean, people totally won't use this to report stuff that they simply disagree with.

I can at least respect Cage's work ethic. He's a weirdo, but when he blew all his cash on absurd things, instead of just declaring bankruptcy and fading into the sunset he decided to take every possible job that came his way, in whatever quantity that entailed. Some good. some horrible. most meh.
I've got "normal" friends who would shy away from that level of fix.

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They really should start holding parents accountable for buying age inappropriate things for their kids. Here in FL, the public schools in Orange County recently just instituted a ban on e-bikes and e-scooters, because a significant number of kids were flouting the traffic laws, riding without helmets, and some parents were actually buying e-motorcycles for their brats. I thought giving your kid a phone with unrestricted internet access was irresponsible enough, but someone's always gotta come along and say "Hold my beer!"

On one side you've got parents flipping out because the school library might have a book buried somewhere within the shelves that says trans people exist. On the other, there's parents buying their kids smartphones with unrestricted internet access, and frickin' motorcycles. The duality of parents is a strange, strange thing.