I take issue with this article using the language "lagging behind in the use of generative AI". That language seems to imply there is something wrong in this behaviour.
this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2025
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It's a creative country. They don't need a slopbot to make substandard garbage for them.
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Use it for what? Generating a bunch of nonsense text that others have to waste time reading? Generating shitty images with fucked up hands and garbled text to use in stupid ads for worthless trash?
This is a "competitive advantage" not worth pursuing. Most AI products/services lose money and even if they didn't, they're creatively bankrupt as a whole and shouldn't be admired for squeezing money with lower quality.
Country known for historically being resistant to rapid technological change is resisting newest technological change trends.
How surprising.
In other news, Japan has an aging population.
Or aging or sensible?
if any country has an actual interest in replacing their disappearing population with AI workers, it would be Japan
Youmay not be wrong, but it reinforces the notion AI is a new tiktok fad and nothing truly useful
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And do you think all the shrimp jesuses on facebook are made by and for young people?
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Japanese people tend to make a big deal out of the "human touch," especially when it comes to service, so I can see how companies aren't jumping on to the hype. We're also pretty slow to adopt change.
Oh and maybe the shit exchange rate makes it expensive to use the service as everything is pretty much foreign tech.
Japanese people tend to make a big deal out of the “human touch,” especially when it comes to service, so I can see how companies aren’t jumping on to the hype. We’re also pretty slow to adopt change.
And that's pretty cool, seems like a culture best suited for modern challenges.
I've heard\read there are many racist, paternalist, hierarchical and collectivist traits, but at the same time Japan apparently hasn't hit those honeypots most of the humanity has.
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Japanese people tend to make a big deal out of the "human touch," especially when it comes to service
Aren't they the ones that first came up with robot servers in restaurants? Or maybe that was South Korea?
It might actually be China. All the robots I see here are the one with the cat face and I'm pretty sure that's where they come from. We don have remote control robot cafes where people with physical/mental disabilities to serve you using avatar bots which is cool!
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Well, there’s no fax API so how would they access it?
…. God I have the dumbest idea for a project now
IPoF? IP over Fax? Almost as good as IPoAC.
Good for them.
Japan has always been behind most of the world in software advancements. They built their reputation on hardware, but even there they’re significantly lagging.
It was weird watching the divergent development of cell phones in Japan vs the US. The US cell phone industry went all in on software advancements. Japan had phones with all of these weird attachable hardware modules. I remember Japanese cell phones looking like an old gameboy with every attachment accessory on it.
Japan Not Entirely Stupid Fucking Morons
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Not that surprising considering Japanese government only retired floppy disks in 2024 and fax machines are still in widespread use there.
Japan has been living in the year 2000 since the 80s.
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