Japan’s Used Bookstores Flooded With Mysterious Bulk Orders Amid Suspicions of AI Training
Used bookstores across Japan are reportedly being flooded with unusually large and seemingly automated orders for specialized books, leading some in the industry to suspect they are being purchased for generative AI training — while an investigation separately uncovered records showing more than 50 tons of Japanese…
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A Japanese indie game developer has revealed that he received a threatening email demanding $200 worth of Steam items, with the sender claiming they would use AI to release a copy of his upcoming game before the original launched.
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Indie Developer Cancels Game Demo Over Fears AI Could Copy It Before Release
The developers of an upcoming indie game have canceled its public demo over concerns that generative AI could be used to rapidly produce copycat games before the original is even released.
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Publishers Furious After Major Distributor Admits Selling Books to AI Company Anthropic
Japanese publishers are expressing outrage after one of the country’s largest book distributors acknowledged selling large quantities of Japanese books to Anthropic, the American AI company behind Claude, raising concerns that the publications may have been destroyed and digitized for AI training without publishers’…
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Japan Asks Public Which Laws & Regulations Are Getting in the Way of AI
The Japanese government is asking people and businesses working with AI to tell it which of the country’s existing laws and regulations are preventing them from actually using the technology.
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Itch.io Deletes Terabytes of “AI Slop” & Adds Filter to Block AI Games
Independent gaming platform itch.io has deleted several terabytes of what it describes as “AI slop” from its storefront, while introducing new filtering options that allow customers to exclude games and other content created using generative artificial intelligence.
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Japan’s KDDI Plans 1,000 AI Robots to Combat Labor Shortages
Japanese telecommunications giant KDDI has announced plans to invest ¥30 billion ($200 million) in artificial intelligence-powered robots, aiming to deploy more than 1,000 autonomous machines across Japanese workplaces by fiscal 2030.
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