What's important is that the law is made, so they can say they're protecting us. It doesn't need to exist in practice.

A future international loophole still exists. A California-based software developer complies, passes copyright audits, and then creates his proprietary software. But he will just export it to his home country, renames it, and the world still gets its virtual Taylor Swift or Lucy Lu bots.

A lot of student ai developers and ai projects are only in California on a temporary basis.