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This is so silly. Japan needs to get with the times. Also its one thing to create deep fakes of real people but it sounds like they even said that the images were generated with AI so what's the problem? There is worse hentai I've seen in manga form that depicts some truly heinous things but that's ok to sell and make money off. So basically they got in trouble because it didn't have the silly mosaic pixels over the bits? You can see anything online here in japan as long as it was produced over seas so really this rule is moot. These kind of things need to go the way of the dinosaurs.

give the old man a warning or a fine and let him be on his way why the news report?

These ojisans running these companies need to get with the times. Young people don't want to work those long hours of overtime and be yelled at and talked down to by there higher ups. Either get with the times or just use ai and robots because only they will not complain about being bullied and harassed at work. Not even foreign workers want to put up with the Japanese work customs

I wish they put more money in building actual robots...

Anyone saying generative AI is "crap" because of hallucinations obviously don't keep up with the ever changing landscape of AI.

There is specific AI for specific tasks and then there are general AI like for instance chatgpt. But just because you don't know how to use something doesn't make it "crap"

People are saying this because it hallucinations, but 1 it's getting better and hallucinates less and less and 2 you should question everything anyone says and not take everything at face value. I remember how people would just take something someone would say at face value not too long ago as gospel just because someone they respected said it when in fact they were either lying or just repeating something else someone else told them.

I wish Japan would work towards building their own AI on japanese data sets. They need an AI that is catered to japanese people and how they think and talk. Right now American and Chinese AI still lacks a lot of nuanced things when it comes to Japanese.

In Japan they have Sakana AI that is doing great work in the research field of AI, and there is also another that is trying its hand at a chatbot but no app just a desktop platform. I am honestly kinda surprised that japan isn't doing more with robots.

The global population is still rising, right? So what? There is no incentive for young people to have kids anymore. I doubt any of those countries will go extinct anytime soon, and even if they do, such is how time works. Nothing lasts forever, even stars and galaxies. As far as the labor shortage that's easy, it will come in the form of humanoid robots. Humans, for the most part, are still to territorial. Just another sign that we are still lacking in evolution. That being said, people will push back on letting robots take all the jobs, but regardless of how anyone feels, the fact is that young people do not want to do the menial/repetative factory jobs, nor do they want to dedicate their lives to caring for the elderly and disabled. On another note, if LEV becomes a thing, those things might not even be something to worry about in our lifetimes.

AI is changing rapidly, and this is a new frontier for a lot of people and companies around the world. But it's not going anywhere. In fact, just like the internet and smartphones, it's only going to become more prevalent. Right now we are going through growing pains as we try to figure out this new tool called AI, but once AI gets so smart that it can improve itself, I think the paradigm of the old way we've been doing things will slowly start to change, and in 5 years it will be unrecognizable, the world we are living in then.

@Old Sausage

In order to search the web with chatgpt you need to click on the little globe icon. That puts it in internet mode without it, it will only search its own data base. That being said I still rather use perplexity if i wanna find something out online with AI

Too little too late, having kids isn't just the cost of day care it's the burden of taking care of the children in general. Japan is well known to have a large population of guys who have never been with a women even once. Just making daycare free for first and second born is like throwing a cup of water on a burning house hoping that would put out the fire. If labor shortage is an issue and they don't want to bring in foreigners then the only other option in my opinion is start buying or producing humanoid robots to do all the work. I mean according to Elon musk there will be more humanoid robots than people by 2040.

Well I predict that the rise of synthetic cannabis will rise aka thch and thco and others of the like which maybe even worse than THC. Also drugs that can't be easily tested like LSD will become more popular. Bottom line is humans like to get inebriated in some from or another. Ban on thing a new thing will pop up and so on and so forth. On a side not could you imagine the back lash if they passed a similar law about alcohol?

頑張れ!

Unpopular opinion (for now), with less young people to take care of these hyper elderly and also shrinking work force in japan. I think the only option is either boost immigration (which alot of people are against because it blah blah losing culture) or start mass producing humanoid/non humanoid robots to pick up the slack.

I personally think the latter would be in the interest of alot of these "first world" countries seem most complain about immigration.

People talking on here like Musk himself is single-handedly spreading all the fake news. News flash fake news has been around even before the internet; it was just called propaganda. I had a discussion with a Brazilian person (a random person from Brazil that wanted to make clear why banning X was in the interest of the Brazilian people). He said that because Brazil was a young democracy, only 30 years since they became a democracy, any kind of hate speech would be detrimental to the country's overall moral. But here is the thing moving to any other platform doesn't guarantee that those types of fake news will no longer find their way to the impressionable eyes of the Brazilian public. Also, a 9,000 dollar fine is insane! Treating grown adults like children will always leave a bad taste in my mouth, but hey, I am not Brazilian, nor do I plan to ever live there, so I wish the people of Brazil good luck in this ever-changing world we live in.

@Garthgoyle

It's just a fad that will soon go away, at least for the consumers market. Just like the VR headsets.

This comment shows how little you know about the industry. VR headsets are going strong and are getting better each year. The average consumer might think "it's just a fad" but is far from it. The same for these AI powered tech. I would argue that it will only become more integrated with everyday life (like the internet) to the point where in a the near future people will wonder how people lived without it (kinda how google maps has mad using paper maps almost obsolete) but only time will tell.

Whats next a quad folding phone? This seems a bit much for me even if i could afford it. IMP seems like these phone companies are running out of ideas. Me personally am waiting for more wearable tech like smart glasses to catch up. Seems more freeing than having a phone that can fold multiple times.

I wonder if we'll start seeing ostrich meat soled in the local super markets in the near future.

I wonder how all this will play out once companies start adopting humanoid robotics to these type of factories in the future...

When did sei whales become endangered?

Sei whales became classified as endangered primarily due to extensive commercial whaling that peaked in the mid-20th century. Although they were hunted sporadically since the 1860s, significant hunting began in earnest during the 1950s and 1960s when whalers turned to sei whales as populations of more profitable species like blue and fin whales dwindled. Over this period, it is estimated that around 300,000 sei whales were killed, leading to a drastic decline in their population.

The sei whale was officially listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Conservation Act in June 1970, which later transitioned into the Endangered Species Act. This listing marked the beginning of legal protections for the species, although it wasn't until 1986 that the International Whaling Commission (IWC) implemented a moratorium on commercial whaling for all whale species, including sei whales.Despite these protections, the sei whale population has struggled to recover fully due to ongoing threats such as vessel strikes, entanglement in fishing gear, and environmental changes, including climate change and pollution

The Myaku-Myaku character is so strange. I can't be the only one that thinks that mascot bares a striking resemblance to the Marlboro monster from the final fantasy series.

what a strange title to this article

Man that is some deep seated resentment to kill your own mother in that way.

Anyone in their right mind would know stabbing someone for any reason aside from self defense is a bad idea. Despite not having the "intent to kill" he is a lunatic and should get locked up.

Lets not act like every weekend (and most weekdays) kabukicho isn't a huge mess. Acting like banning drinking one night is going to do anything is funny.

@Gene Hennigh

I wonder if you know who put the anti marijuana laws in japan in the first place...

I have eaten whale meat before, and aside from the novelty of it, it's not that tasty. Kinda like a weird ocean beef flavor. They are going out of their way to try to "revive" the industry by trying to get young people to eat it. It is a dying tradition. It's been around for a long time and hasn't disappeared yet, yet very few native Japanese are eating it. The only ones holding on to such traditions are the Japanese in the industry and the forgers that want to act like they love it so much. They will never get people to eat whale like the olden days because the younger generation doesn't care to eat it.

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I can understand the need to crack down on people being drunk while riding their bicycles or looking down at their phones while riding. But that being said, 6 months in jail is just ridiculous! You are going to ruin someone's life over looking at their phone to navigate through town? That to me is quite extreme, especially if it is their first offense. I get that it is dangerous, and there is a time and place for that, but locking up a person for half a year over that is just silly and unnecessary and will just cost tax payers more money and overcrowd the jails over nothing, and what are you going to throw some 20-something-year-old kid in jail with hardened criminals over looking down at their phone while riding a bicycle?

The fact that he is planning on fining people for using a VPN to access X is really worrying. These are adults and having the government act like they are the parents of the people is not good in my opinion.

As someone already stated, I also wonder what the "bodily fluids" were also that's definitely premeditated if he carries around a spray bottle with bodily fluids (who does that?!). It always amazes me when I hear about cases like this. I mean, its one thing to have a fetish for those kinds of things, but it's a whole other thing if a person acts on it with an unsuspecting person. I hope that poor girl gets some counseling if she needs it.

I agree with the people who are saying they need to invest in the infrastructure of these rural places. That being said, the people who are already living there might be upset that their way of living is starting to get more modernized, but I see no other way of incentivizing younger people to move out of Tokyo. They need not only to make more job opportunities in these rural areas but also more leisure activities as well. Not just more izakaya's and snack bars but actual attractions that the kids will like as well. Something maybe more along the lines of amusement parks or something as well as more to do at night.