In practice, the most common prompt will be "make me a video featuring a character that looks almost exactly like without violating copyright
Does the created character need to be identical to be a violation?
How small a change is required to make it acceptable?
Is the law clear on the issue?
Will AI be the judge?

Some tenants are good, honest people, some are not
Some landlords are good, honest people, some are not
Good tenants get treated poorly by bad landlords, so they ask government for help. Governments pass strict tenant protection laws.
Bad tenants take advantage of these laws to do all kinds of awful stuff. Landlords use whatever tools they can get to protect themselves
Good tenants often get unfairly hurt
Good landlords often get unfairly hurt

I learned CS in the 70s
Back then, there weren't that many of us and even less who were good at it. I was paid and treated very well.

Then the word spread, making software was the key to high pay, and the flood started.

Thousands of students of varying talent flooded into colleges. Business leaders and politicians told everybody to learn to code. Boot camps and private tutors appeared. Soon there was an abundance of programmers, but few who were excellent. Talent is real. It takes a special kind of mind to be good at making software.

In boom times, even the less talented could find work, copying and pasting code fragments and using poorly understood frameworks to quickly and cheaply churn out mediocre code. People in foreign countries also learned to code, and had the benefit of being really cheap.

Now there are way too many people with mediocre talent competing for jobs. The best of the best have no problem, but the rest will learn the meaning of the word "oversupply". This would have happened even without AI, but AI is definitely a factor

...do stuff we can't do in science, engineering, medicine and maybe even economics and policy making
We already have writers, actors and musicians who do their job perfectly
I suspect than an AI might write superior technical documentation, but storytelling is something we should keep to ourselves
Artists see this clearly
Profit addicted trendmongers have a different opinion

World models
The ability to constantly learn after initial training
Long term memory

...search for AI generated fake images and block them?

...Deep Mind is developing AI to do really useful things in science
The AI world is splitting into two factions, those who make truly useful tools and others who make incredibly stupid and annoying crap

...they are voluntary
When I'm totally immersed in a project, I love working long hours. The project takes over my mind and is the most enjoyable thing I can think of doing.
At the other extreme. being forced to work long hours to meet some arbitrary schedule goal sucks mightily

...when theaters were necessary, because of the tech of the time.
Today, they are dinosaurs that deserve to die.
Drive across town, find a parking space, wait in line, pay way too much for snacks, sit in an uncomfortable seat with no subtitles or ability to pause or rewind. It all sucks.
I can imagine something like a bar or restaurant that shows movies as a kinda background thing, but there is no benefit to movie theaters.
Live plays and music are a different story

Most of the Chinese crap on Amazon is identical to Temu
Yeah, Amazon does sell name brand quality stuff, but you need to look for it and the crap outnumbers it by far

I'm a glassworker.
In the past, glassworkers have built huge followings on IG and used them to sell their work.
Some of the work was "functional", pipes used for smoking cannabis.
Evidently some advertisers don't want to be associated with "illegal drug paraphernalia", even in states where cannabis is legal, so accounts got banned.
This resulted in lost sales for some very talented and hard-working artists.

But wait, it gets worse.
Other artists made stuff like pendants, marbles, beer glasses, wine glasses, sculptures, etc...no pipes.
Many of their accounts also got banned because some of their designs kinda looked similar to designs commonly used in pipes.
The stupid robot that bans accounts can't seem to tell the difference.

Depending on social media to keep your business alive is a dangerous gamble. A small change in the rules can destroy years of work

Social etiquette is illogical, stupid and should die
AI knows better than some of us

...that vibe coding is useful are the hypemongers, clueless wannabe techies who believe they can effortlessly get rich and clueless investors who understand nothing about tech but are desperate for the next big thing

Real progress is being made in creating useful tools that deliver real value. I find perplexity and chat GPT to be very useful for a limited number of tasks. Future AI may deliver tools that help us solve previously intractable problems.

Unfortunately, a lot of crap is being produced. Image generators, music generators, vibe coding tools, robot friends, robot therapists, corporate email generators and more are wasting time and money and making everything worse.

This seems to be true of every new tech. Some use it for good, some for evil and some for the stupidest uses imaginable

Real computer science is not the same as teaching the fashionable language or tool of the moment.
It should be about teaching students how to think about code and design useful and reliable software.
Current AI tools are interesting, not because they allow the clueless to quickly "vibe code" buggy, insecure crap, but because they give hope for a future where experts can build better software and use it to solve previously intractable problems.
The best things to teach are the conceptual fundamentals and the ability to apply the fundamentals to whatever tech comes along tomorrow