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Image-generating AI’s picture of “Final Fantasy VII Cloud” is so wrong, yet so right
- Casey Baseel
Aug 14, 2022 - Tweet
Simultaneously looks exactly and nothing like the Final Fantasy hero.
- Japan
- (AI • Cloud Strife • crazy • Final Fantasy • Final Fantasy VII • funny • image generating AI • Midjourney • Square Enix • video games • weird)
Adult video mosaic destroyer’s trial ends with guilty verdict in Kyoto district court
- Casey Baseel
Jul 2, 2022
Machine-learning A.I. used to try to skirt Japanese censorship laws.
- Japan
- (A.I. • AI • beautiful women • censorship • crazy • crime • mosaic • technology • weird)
Japanese AI device reads stories to your kid with your voice, even if you’ve never read them【Vid】
- Casey Baseel
May 28, 2022
Coemo lets you narrate stories whether you know them or not.
- Japan
- (AI • artificial intelligence • cool • Takara Tomy • technology • toys • video)
AI-powered Super Great Robo Goalkeeper employed at sports center in Saitama
- Master Blaster
Apr 29, 2022
I wouldn’t put it past Teppeki-kun.
- Japan
- (AI • Air Digital • football • goalkeeper • robots • Saitama • soccer • sports • Sports 60 & Smart • technology)
Shikoku Island holds world landmark lookalike photography contest judged by AI
- Master Blaster
Apr 18, 2022
Many of the greatest places on Earth are all on one rural Japanese island.
- Japan
- (AI • Ehime • Kagawa • kochi • photography • Shikoku • Tokushima • travel • world landmarks)
One Piece’s Luffy is now working as an AI receptionist at manga publisher’s Tokyo office【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Mar 25, 2022
Leader of the Straw Hat pirates greets and holds conversations with visitors to Shueisha.
- Japan
- (AI • anime • artificial intelligence • cool • Luffy • manga • Monkey D. Luffy • One Piece • Shueisha • technology • video)
Man uses AI to “destroy” censor mosaics in Japanese adult videos, gets arrested by Kyoto police
- Casey Baseel
Oct 22, 2021
It’s debatable whether or not what he did was actually destruction, but the police say there’s no question it was a crime.
- Japan
- (AI • beautiful women • censorship • crazy • crime • mosaic • technology • weird)
AI translation company Rozetta bans staff from speaking a foreign language at work
- Dale Roll
Mar 4, 2021
The company’s AI machine translation programs eliminate the need for anyone to speak a language other than their own, they say.
- Japan
- (AI • business • language • machine translation • office culture • Rozetta • technology • translation)
Japanese government’s new birth rate plan: Use AI to tell people who’d be a good spouse for them
- Casey Baseel
Dec 10, 2020
Wants to help people find spouses who don’t meet their preferences for age, income, or education.
- Japan
- (AI • artificial intelligence • birth rate • COK • marriage • relationships • society • weird)
Japanese conveyor belt sushi restaurant chain makes sushi with the help of artificial intelligence
- Ingrid Tsai
Nov 17, 2020
At least when the machines take over there’ll be good sushi to eat.
- Japan
- (AI • artificial intelligence • conveyer belt sushi • food • Japanese food • Kura Sushi • nigiri • revolving sushi • sashimi • sushi)
Tokyo in 60 frames-per-second, 107 years in the past, looks amazing【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 11, 2020
AI-restored video opens a hyper-realistic window to the Japan of a century ago.
- Japan
- (AI • beautful • cool • history • Taisho Era • Tokyo • video • video restoration)
New Japanese social media platform promises positive responses only for users’ posts【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 28, 2020
But won’t there always be terrible people online? Not on this social media network.
- Internet, Japan
- (AI • anime • Bandai Namco • social media • Sword Art Online • technology • video • weird)
These models don’t exist: New agency offers AI generated models for commercial use
- Master Blaster
Jun 10, 2020
Company boasts scandal-proof faces for all your marketing needs.
- Japan
- (AI • ImageNavi • ImageNavi AI Model • INAI Model • marketing • models • scandals • stock images)
SoraNews24’s first article written entirely by an AI
- Master Blaster
Apr 29, 2020
The future is here, and it’s weird.
- Internet, Japan
- (AI • robots • Scuttlebutt • technology • wtf • zombies)
Digital resurrection after death? 63 percent of Japanese and American survey participants say nah
- Eli Pang
Mar 23, 2020
Dead folks tell no tales unless they become an AI-programmed hologram!
- Japan
- (AI • artificial intelligence • D.E.A.D • technology • whatever inc)
Anime dating simulator girl gets turned into horrifying monster by “image improvement” AI【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Feb 21, 2020
Anime characters are known for their big eyes, but this time it’s some tiny ones that are causing terror.
- Japan
- (AI • anime • crazy • dating simulators • deep learning • funny • illustration • romance games • scary • tokimeki memorial • video • video games • weird)
New Osamu Tezuka manga to be released this month, penned by AI
- Master Blaster
Feb 9, 2020
We will soon see if AI can recreate the magic of the God of Manga.
- Japan
- (AI • death • Kioxia • manga • morning • Nagaharu Yodogawa • Osamu Tezuka • Paidon)
God of Manga Osamu Tezuka to return to work with “new manga” produced by AI
- Casey Baseel
Oct 4, 2019
Creator of Astro Boy has been deceased for 30 years.
- Japan
- (AI • anime • artificial intelligence • Astro Boy • manga • Osamu Tezuka • technology • Tetsuwan Atom)
New anime AI program animates your art for you when you add a voice clip【Videos】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 16, 2019
DeepAnime is the attest attempt to raise the heights of automated anime production.
- Japan
- (AI • anime • art • awesome • COK • cool • deep learning • GANs • illustration • manga • technology • video)
Check out these awesome AI-generated Pokémon characters that could be the future of Pokémon
- Dale Roll
Jul 5, 2019
Could these creatures designed by robots inspire the next generation of Pokémon?
- Japan
- (AI • AI generator • anime • artificial intelligence • design • GAN • Pokemon • StyleGAN • technology • video games)
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Tokyo train station will play Godzilla theme song as new departure melody
Osaka’s famous Glico Running Man will be removed and replaced with a new-look sign
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Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
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