PoliticsJapan's right wing turns AI into a new tool of historical revisionism

The article says generative AI is being used in Japanese cyberspace to mass-produce anti-China, xenophobic and historically revisionist material. It cites reports that CrowdWorks and other crowdsourcing platforms recruited creators to make China-critical videos with AI. By lowering production costs, the technology is helping revisionist narratives about the Nanjing Massacre, the “comfort women” issue and Japan’s colonial rule spread more widely.

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