And do you think all the shrimp jesuses on facebook are made by and for young people?

They also embraced QR codes a decade or more before the West did.

Methinks you are romanticizing a culture you don’t live in by only seeing the positives you like.

That's kind of an insulting assumption as I'm Japanese and live in Japan. So while I may have a biased opinion, I wouldn't say it's romantisizing.

In fact, I'd say you're the one that seems to be making assumptions based on snippets of our culture that you see on the internet. The weird vending machines that sell letters from your pretend grandma to used panties aren't found everywhere you go — they're in specific locations for the novelty.

Also having regular vending machines for drinks and food doesn't exactly contradict my point. The vending machines are more for the customers' convenience. They're not installed specifically for removing human contact. Yes, we lose human contact as a result, but it's a tradeoff to better serve customers whereas most companies that deploy AI support agents probably do so to save a buck.

Sorry about the rant.

I did not realize that lemmy doesn't trunkate excessively long comments and put a "read more" button like most websites do....
Hmm, that means posting anything long for any reason is annoying. Oh well... I guess long term that will make short 160 character quips the preferred form on Lemmy.

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.

I don't know what are those, and for some reasons, I am afraid to look it up...

You know, Japan...

It's a creative country. They don't need a slopbot to make substandard garbage for them.

In other news, Japan has an aging population.

Yeah, they'll just make substandard garbage themselves.

That Time I got Isekai'd into a World Where Everything is a Woman!

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

Human created substandard garbage > AI slop

Well, there’s no fax API so how would they access it?

I did not realize that lemmy doesn't trunkate excessively long comments and put a "read more" button like most websites do....
Hmm, that means posting anything long for any reason is annoying. Oh well... I guess long term that will make short 160 character quips the preferred form on Lemmy.

I miss the good ol days when I could have a nice chat with the neighborhood cashier while I bought my used panties.

Yeah, they'll just make substandard garbage themselves.

That Time I got Isekai'd into a World Where Everything is a Woman!

…. God I have the dumbest idea for a project now