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Another victim of the autotranslate feature (xcancel.com)
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Former Japanese television presenter and YouTuber Kanon Aoki has warned that X’s automatic translation tool is damaging Japan’s international reputation as a polite and harmonious society.

She explains that the feature now exposes blunt or negative online comments from some Japanese users to global audiences, revealing opinions on topics like tourism and cultural norms that were previously hidden by language barriers.

Via @FujiNews_

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[-] big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 5 days ago

it seems that japanese politeness only existed in anime-manga as a work of fiction

[-] opiumfree@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 4 days ago

”japan is polite” is the same as ”israel is progressive”

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