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.

Good for them.

Country known for historically being resistant to rapid technological change is resisting newest technological change trends.

How surprising.

Not that surprising considering Japanese government only retired floppy disks in 2024 and fax machines are still in widespread use there.

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

ftfy

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.

Wonder if that will end up helping in the longer term.

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

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

In other news, Japan has an aging population.

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.

Like I did not already like the way that country does things enough.

Because they're not brain dead idiots perhaps ?