Tag: AI

Sexy AI ladies cause problems

(upbeat music)

Okay, so last week I talked
about the Ghibli Art Style AI trend.

So OpenAI allows you
to say like I want to take

this picture and turn
it into Ghibli Style Art.

And then people are
using as profile pictures.

It kind of spread across Instagram.

All these people are like, oh
look, I made Ghibli Cartoon.

I’m so cute.

Now my point was, is
an art style copyrightable.

Because I don’t think it is.

The problem is to train
an AI on a style of art.

You would have to take the copyright in art

and feed that into the AI in order to
get the ability to reproduce the art style.

Okay, but that was a hard sentence.

So my feeling is, while they
can’t maybe sue for the art style,

they can say you clearly
have had to take copyright

and material, feed it into
your AI, and now you’re

producing this content
without our permission.

There might be something there.

People aren’t necessarily
taking my opinion too seriously

because I’m just a very tiny
podcaster in the world of the internet.

But there are other people,
artists who have some renowned

who are now taking to the
internet and saying like this is awful.

The director of one piece said that
they are in despair over this trend.

The fact that these clearly
copyright and materials

been fed into AI and that
AI is then taking that material

now is changing pictures
and that art style is going out.

And it’s being copied around the internet
and it’s really unfair because again,

you’re stealing art from
the artists who make them.

You’re stealing a style of art
that maybe someone took years

and years to develop and
learn and create themselves.

And you’re just throwing
it away in minutes.

So this led to this
actually being discussed

in the house of
brevity, but god damn it.

This led this to actually being
discussed in the house of representatives

because they were again having
the same qualms and queries

about that I do, like is
it copyright infringement

to steal a style of art when you’re
not actually stealing the art itself?

So if I make a copy of a character,
that’s copyright infringement.

If I do something that if I
draw a new original character

in the same style, is that
copyright infringement?

So this was part of their discussion.

If it is only a matter of the
style or ideas being similar,

then it would not be
considered copyright infringement.

He explained the law.

So that’s copyright law.

So if you’re not stealing
the actual thing, then it’s not

copyright infringement, even
if you do it in the same style.

However, if AI generated
content is determined

to be similar or reliant on
pre-existing copyrighted works,

then there is a possibility that it
could constitute copyright infringement.

So the use of styles and ideas is legal,
but an AI generated image were recognized

as being jibbly itself, then
it would be a violation of law.

So saying me as an artist,
I make a jibbly style image,

but I draw it myself,
as long as I’m not using

their actual characters
or properties, that’s fine.

But because AI doesn’t
have that process or thought,

they have to have taken
copyright and material

to learn from, then
there could be a violation

because they haven’t paid for that copyright
stuff to be used in the first place.

Dewey Sukarno is this lady on TV in Japan.

She’s like 70, something
years old, I hate her.

I hated her from the first time I saw her.

She just reeks of rich entitlement.

So she’s old, she’s rich.

She’s probably been rich her whole life.

She used to be really hot.

I guess she was on TV, she was famous.

She’s now famous for being old and rich.

And so of course she’s classy,
and I do that with air quotes.

She does all these like
really annoying things

that rich people do that are
really pretentious and awful.

And so everything about
her is the antithesis to me.

I hate everything that she embodies.

So I’ve always hated having her on TV.

My family used to watch
this show on Sunday nights.

She was a regular feature.

If she was on it, I would whip
out my phone or leave the room.

I found her that disgusting
to have in front of my face.

My family didn’t get it.

They’re like, guys, she’s just an old lady

and she’s kind of funny
because she’s out of touch.

And I’m like, no, she’s out of touch

because she thinks she’s
better than everyone else.

And I find that really gross.

Dewey Suckarno was in
a restaurant in Shibuya.

And she’s been accused.

Now accused is an interesting
thing because that’s the legal term for.

She did it, but we haven’t
actually prosecuted her yet.

She’s been accused of
throwing a champagne glass.

The boosiest crime you could commit is
throwing a champagne glass at someone,

injuring someone or
attempting to injure someone

or something they
probably couldn’t even afford.

They were at an employee of her agency.

So she’s sitting at a dinner.

There are six employees of
her agency working together.

They’re talking to her.

One of her employees obviously
says something that pisses her off.

Not her employee directly, but works
for the same agency that promotes her.

So she gets pissed off.

So she does what any
reasonable human being would do.

And she throws a glass, the only glass in
front of her, which is a champagne glass.

Of course, ’cause she’s a fucking
old bitch and I hate her guts.

The reason she got angry is
because they were talking about

a political party she
has recently formed now.

I was really surprised
to hear that this lady

had formed a political
party because I didn’t think

she had sort of any political
aspirations of any value.

And then I found out what the
stated goals of her political party were.

The one young peace party.

Now, if you don’t speak
Japanese, one young’s

already a big clue as to
what kind of party this is.

One is dog.

And Jan is sort of the sounds
that dogs and cats make.

So they go one, one, and Jan and stuff.

So it’s the one, Jan, peace party.

Focused on dogs and cats
protection policies exclusively.

So this woman who feels it’s
perfectly appropriate to pick

up a champagne glass and
throw it at another human being

is so devout to the protection
of animals, dogs and cats

that she’s actually forming
a political party to do it.

The level of fucking hypocrisy
in that moment is astronomical.

She has no regard for
the safety or wellbeing

of other people because
they’re not as rich as she is.

But you know this boozy bitch has a bunch

of fucking dogs and cats,
little poodles and shit.

And like I’m saying that while I have a
poodle in my own fucking lap right now,

because I would actually
never equate the value

of the animal to another
person in a negative way

like saying, well, my boozy little poodle
is worth more than your actual human life.

I might even find them
equivalent because I hate you and

love the dog, but that’s a
different thing altogether.

The dog has proved its value to me in a
different, I think I’ve gotten off track now.

I see my own irony in this statement as
I may say this thing because I right now

have a boozy poodle sitting
in my lap, the same which if

you watch the YouTube video
has a portrait of on my wall.

But I consider human life
just as valuable as the dog.

So I have nothing
against forming a political

party that will protect
the rights of animals.

I do think I have a problem
with forming a political

party that will protect
the rights of animals

who’s leader seems
to think it’s perfectly

acceptable to hook glass
at another human being.

It’s just such a rich lady thing to do.

I’m going to protect all
the animals in the world.

I don’t really give a shit
about the human sitting

in front of me, in fact,
they can go fuck themselves

if they don’t agree
with everything I say.

I think it’s perfectly
acceptable for me to throw

shit at their faces and
maybe scar them for life.

(upbeat music)

So we had a story about an American guy

who had a gun in his
backpack and turned himself in.

We have another story of the next week,

just last week of another guy who packed
weapons saying he intended to go to expo.

Now we have a sort of third story,
it’s expo related and weapons related.

So it just seemed to fit this theme.

Expo seems to be bringing out the crazies.

I think the first guy was
just coming to Japan.

I don’t think it was necessarily for expo.

The second guy though, specifically said,
I’m going to expo and I brought my gun.

Not making clear if
there’s a relation there.

I’m still actually
following up on that

story, seeing if there
is an actual connection

between bringing the
gun if he intended to

experiment with the gun
with the crowds at expo.

But this is why expo has extra security
because this kind of stuff is happening.

There was an 80 year
old man who was arrested

for claiming they had
a bomb in his backpack.

He basically was going into expo.

And they said, they want
to do a backpack check.

So they take your
backpack, they open it up.

When they go to open his backpack,

he says to them, “Ha ha,
there’s a bomb in my backpack.

” Staff, of course, can’t
tell if he’s joking or not.

So they do the only thing that’s
perfectly reasonable for them to do.

They call security, they call the police,

they shut down everything,
they get all the people out there,

like 200 people had to be
evacuated from that area.

And then they actually had to go
through his bomb and the man was arrested.

When he was arrested, he said, “I got
excited because I’m a fan of the expo.

“I said it half-in-just, I didn’t
mean to disrupt the event.

” Now, half-in-just is already
the wrong phrase to use.

You should not be joking at
all that you’re having a bomb.

But if you’re saying your joke is that
you have a bomb, it should not be half.

There shouldn’t be
like half a bomb in there.

You’re either going to make the whole joke

or no joke at all, the problem is
no one can tell that you’re joking.

And I actually hope this guy
gets quite severely punished.

(upbeat music)

A Japanese music label has released songs
by Aki Ashido, previous hits and others.

So basically, this is one of
those like greatest hits of Aki,

all the songs that were
popular 10, 15, 20 years ago.

And they’ve decided that
we need something special.

So basically, everyone who’s
a fan already has these songs.

They don’t need another
CD with these songs.

So you have to do something to make
the people who really want to buy this CD.

So they included in the CD two nude
photos from when she was in her 20s.

The problem is she died in 2023.

So we have no idea if she
actually approved of this

or would approve of this or
has approved of this in writing.

So basically, these guys
have the rights to the CD.

They seem to have
the rights for the photos,

but they haven’t necessarily
gotten her permission

to publish them, but they’re
going to go ahead with it anyways.

Governors in the area are actually
saying that this should be canceled.

You should not be allowed to
release this without her permission,

without her statement without,
I don’t know if they do estates

like they do in North America,
without her estate’s permission.

But basically, everyone is
kind of grossed out about it.

But at the same time, you know a bunch
of people are actually going to buy it.

We’ve got a very weird AI porn-ven
diagram happening in today’s episode.

So we’ve already done one AI story.

We’re going to do, we
just did a new photo story.

Now we hit the combination.

Shui-e-shoes, Playboy magazine.

So not the Playboy magazine
you would be familiar with

from North America, where it’s just
like center folds and stuff like that.

This is more of a men’s magazine in Japan.

They do have bikini
spreads and stuff like that.

And that I actually never bought it.

So I don’t know if that’s 100% accurate.

But I know sexy girl
on the cover, sexy girls

inside, I don’t know
what they actually do.

I’ve never actually picked
one up and opened it.

On April 14th, so a couple of weeks ago,

they released an issue with Satsuki
I on the cover, I being an AI model.

This is not the first time she’s actually
been promoted or featured in the magazine.

She was first released,
’cause I can’t say like

she came to the scene or
debuted in summer of 2023.

They call her Playboy describes
her as a little sister type,

to a little sister type,
beautiful girl with a

raccoon face that
embodies every man’s ideal.

And this shows the very different
cultural way of explaining things.

So I don’t know what a raccoon face is.

I looked at the picture, I
mean, if I’m gonna be honest,

very attractive woman,
I get that she’s not

real, so it doesn’t really
do that much for me.

But she is a very ideal, pretty person,
but I didn’t see the raccoon aspects.

I assume they mean big eyes.

And small nose maybe,
maybe eats a lot of garbage.

I’m not really 100% sure what they
mean by raccoon face, raccoon faces,

clearly a type in Japanese
that I haven’t come across

’cause I haven’t spent
a lot of time talking

about women in Japanese
terms in Japanese.

Little sister type, again,
the fetishization of youth

is very set in Japan,
it’s a very common thing.

There’s not much you can say there,

we’re not getting away from
it even if you think it’s gross.

The only benefit here is they haven’t
tried to hide the fact that she was AI.

So viewer reaction is mixed.

Some people are like,
put real women in there

if you’re gonna put
real women in there.

And some people are like, oh yes, the
AI beauty ideal is the ideal of every man

because of course it can
actually achieve real ideals

and like doesn’t have
any sort of human flaws.

And we don’t actually
have to deal with people

and let’s face it, if you’re into this,
you’re not dealing with people anyways.

I don’t know how I feel about it.

I mean, my actual feeling is,
people are still buying magazines.

(upbeat music)

And then we get to
our final set of stories.

So I’ve stuck these two
together because they sort of,

again, the then diagram of overlap
is almost a circle with these two.

We’ve had the first AI
porn arrests in Japan.

And so four people were
arrested, three men and a woman.

They were arrested for the distribution
of a scene material in obscene images.

So they’ve been accused of training AI

from free internet tools
using data of women’s bodies.

That in itself is not a crime.

They said, we’re gonna take
these AI images of women we’ve

created and make posters
and you can buy those posters.

That in itself is not a crime.

They said, like the legal thing in
Japan is that if you have genitals visible,

you have to blur them out
or do a mosaic or something.

They said these posters, when you get them,

they will be censored, they will
be mosaic, they will be blurred out.

But when the posters
actually arrived, they weren’t.

So you were getting full genitalia
visualization of the AI image on the poster.

So you were getting, that’s
where the obscene part comes in.

The bit that was supposed to be censored

was not censored when you
actually received your poster.

They seemed to have
made 10 million yen last

year using selling these
AI uncensored posters.

Everything they did
before the uncensored bit

was technically legal when they actually
sent out the image that wasn’t censored.

That’s when it became illegal

and that’s when they all got
arrested and got in trouble.

Which leads me again to the
same statement as previously.

People are still buying
posters for their walls.

Like, I know it would be a
lot of work to train it yourself.

But also, you could just go on the internet

and do some printing at home
if that’s what you really wanted.

A new issue as a risen in Japan
and as the combination of AI

being used with graduation photos
and then deep faking them onto porn.

There is no national law
about deep fakes yet in Japan.

There is one into a totally prefecture.

So this seems to be where it happens.

So someone got to hold it
the data for graduation photos.

So these are very young people.

They’d be graduates of high school.

And they are taking those faces

and putting those faces in
deep faking them onto porn.

And so you have this
essentially still under age vision

of pornography being used
even though no one’s actually in it.

And then what they’re
doing is actually trying

to extort the people
saying, like, here’s a video

that I made a view,
give me extra amount of

yen and I won’t release
it on the internet.

Totori, a single prefecture
has made this a crime.

So it’s threatening, it’s extortion
and it’s using sort of revenge porn laws.

The revenge porn laws
are already in place in Japan.

So you’re not allowed to
take an image of someone

and post it on the internet to get
them in trouble or make them feel bad.

That’s already illegal.

Pretty much everywhere
in Japan, I’m pretty sure.

But this is a new version
because you’re not getting

a picture of them having
sex or images of them nude

and posting those on the internet
and threatening them that way.

You’re just taking their
face, which is almost publicly

available because of the
graduation photos and using that.

So now all these people
are basically sitting around,

A, should we continue with the
graduation book photo tradition in Japan?

B, is there any way we can protect them?

And C, if someone does this, do we have
laws in place to actually protect them?

And they are now– Totori
has now set a precedent.

So I’m betting other prefectures
will take that precedent

to be able to apply it to any instances
that happen in their actual prefectures.

Later on, so it seems
like, again, a lot of

rules are going to be
changing very quickly.

As AI becomes more common and more usable,

more laws need to be put in place to
actually protect people from the abuse of AI.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Because of the way the golden
week holiday falls this year.

So it’s going to be the next two Tuesdays,
which is when I actually record this.

Ninja News Japan is going to be
on hiatus for golden week, at least.

I’m actually thinking of
revamping all the things I do,

because I have so many
things I actually want to do.

I need to rework my schedule
so I can kind of do everything.

I do see– I want– I do Ninja News Japan.

I want to bring C, McBee back.

So I’m actually trying
to make plans to do that.

I have another side
project called Sounds Great

English, where I teach
English on the internet.

I want to do that.

I want to work on Montana, El Diablo.

I want to learn new things.

I want to stream.

I have all these things I want to do.

And I’ve just simply sort of burned
down and trying to do them all.

So I’m going to take
at least golden week off

and try to revamp my life so that I
can do everything in a manageable way.

This might be Ninja News Japan
goes down to twice a month,

or every week, but it’s
shorter, or I do a bit every week.

I have no idea what I’m going to do yet.

But I want to do all these other things
in concert with doing Ninja News Japan.

I want to work on the new– on the next–

I want to work on the next
book from Montana, El Diablo.

I want to work on video projects.

I want to work on editing game
videos so they can go up on YouTube.

I want to work on C, McBee
IMDB, so you get more videos

of me making like Mystery Science
Theater-style jokes about movies.

So I’ve overwhelmed
myself with the things I

want to do, but I do
want to do everything.

And so this is just a case
of managing my time in a way

that I get to do a little bit of
everything, maybe every week.

So I’m not saying Ninja
News Japan is going away.

In fact, what I want to do is
bring more content to the internet,

but I want to do it in a way
that doesn’t actually burn me out.

So that’s kind of where I am right now.

I’m going to see you two,
maybe three, four weeks from now,

back with the Ninja News Japan, and I
actually put money on if I’m at home all day.

I actually bet I do an Ninja News
Japan just throw it out there.

But I don’t want to promise
that and then not do it.

So we’re looking at a two week
break minimum, maybe in a little bit–

maybe even a little bit longer.

But that doesn’t mean Ninja
News Japan is going away.

It just means I’m trying to make my life
better so that I can make your life better.

With more content that you can enjoy, and
hopefully just a broader variety of topics.

Angry with a Beautiful Face

(upbeat music)

Last month, there was the
hug event for BTS members.

They had a woman, 50 year old Japanese
woman, went for the hug, it’s a paid event.

I looked into it, it was
basically there’s a BTS member

on stage, you walk up
to him, you say hello,

you have this like really
cursory hug, it’s really very fake.

And then you move on and you’re thrilled

that you got the opportunity
to touch a BTS member.

I assume.

This 50 year old Japanese
woman decided to take advantage

of her opportunity and she kissed
the BTS member on the neck.

Now this went viral in
Korea and South Korea.

Because of the reaction
the young man made facially.

So his face went viral,
’cause he kinda went,

’cause this woman
kissed him, which is not

the reaction you want
when you kiss somebody.

Like if I kiss somebody and then
they went, “Oh, that’d be pretty hurt.

” This is sexual assault though.

So I have, I’m torn with the
issue of your priming people.

So you have a thing for this guy.

You’ve paid money to
get into physical contact

with this guy, you’re
going to hug this guy,

he’s going to hug you, and of
course this is gonna happen.

I don’t wanna blame the victim.

Like true, if a man
kissed an idol on the

neck, I would be probably
far more incensed.

So this is showing some
of my very normative biases.

But I don’t think you
should be hugging people.

All these handshake events, the
hug events, all this kind of stuff.

I’m not really pro, this physical contact,
especially selling the physical contact.

That actually I think maybe
is what makes it worse.

Anyways, this is sexual assault.

Now in Korea, you can submit a claim
to the police even if you weren’t involved.

So if people saw it, they saw it online.

So all these people started submitting
these complaints to the police.

They’re like, please arrest this woman.

She committed sexual
assault on this member of BTS.

Let’s go.

The woman probably didn’t know she
was in trouble until she got back to Japan.

I’m betting she went to Korea
for the concert for that event.

Maybe stayed a day or two and then was out.

She was probably gone before the
police even opened the investigation.

Statement by the South
Korean police is that

if a suspect remains overseas
for two or more months,

it is impossible to investigate,
which is not impossible, it’s just hard.

Like you can’t go to
Japan if you’re a Korean

police officer and try
to investigate them.

But I’m betting this was a fairly low
priority for the South Korean police anyways.

Like, yeah, it’s pretty awful.

The guy, the BTS guy,
he didn’t put in the claim.

The other people did.

They’re like, we’d probably,
they’re on the lookout for.

They’ve probably flagged her passport.

She might not be able
to re-enter South Korea.

I mean, if I’m being really honest, that
might be the biggest fallout from this.

She’s not actually allowed
to go back to South Korea.

If she does try to go back to South
Korea, she might be arrested on the spot.

But they didn’t even like look for her.

They asked for her to turn herself in.

I think realistically, they probably
would have made her apologize.

I don’t know if that’s okay or not, okay.

I’m really torn.

I don’t like these events.

I don’t like this, like
the concepts, I guess.

I feel like you shouldn’t be doing this.

I don’t think it’s worse
when it’s the teenage girl

idols and the creepy dudes
who hand-shaken stuff.

That’s just really off-putting.

I essentially just disapprove.

You need better security for these things.

And you shouldn’t be setting
them up like this in the first place.

(upbeat music)

Another update, Sukiya.

The mouse laden miso
soup of last week’s story.

So it was a couple of
months ago this happened.

But it didn’t get released until later.

And everyone freaked out fair enough.

I mean, there was a
mouse found in miso soup.

I did like the transition
’cause originally it was mouse

and then it transitioned
to rat very quickly.

It may have been a rat, I don’t know.

But that’s the whole point is
just watching the news cycle

try to make more drama in the story
so that more people will click on it.

So more clickbaity.

So if it’s like mouse is in your miso’s bed

or rat in your miso’s way worse.

So let’s change it to rat.

Things like that.

I noticed things like that because I read
multiple versions of the same story now.

So I can see where the authors are adding

elements or dramaticizing it
so that they can get more clicks.

Well, they’ve had an unfortunate
follow up to their story.

This week, a cockroach
was found in some food.

They didn’t say what
food they were trying to,

maybe a little more vague on it or maybe,
so basically someone found a cockroach left

and then called and
complained about the restaurant.

And the company’s
like, we can’t survive this.

We gotta get this taken care of right away.

So they’re shutting down all the
stores and then doing like a deep clean

or trying to make sure
that there’s no rats,

no cockroach is nothing
in the restaurants.

Basically, every restaurant
was gonna be closed for one

day for a check, except for
the ones in shopping malls.

Now it’s not that those ones are cleaner.

I, you know, shopping mall food
is gonna be the cleanest food ever.

Now it’s the reality
is that they can’t close

the store for the shopping
mall, but they could.

But the reality is something
could come from the KFC

and X-Dore and crawl into
your food and it wouldn’t

really be Suki as fault but
Suki would still get blamed.

Or vice versa, Suki is a rodent and roach
problem might crawl into the KFC next door

and your new chicken nugget is special.

Please don’t think about that
while you’re eating junk food.

I hope you’re not eating
that kind of food right now

while I’m saying this because you may have
ruined your meal and I apologize for that.

But the reality is every time you put
something in your mouth, you are taking a risk.

The Imperial household is going
to launch a YouTube channel.

Last year, they started an Instagram
where they were posting thirst traps.

It was like the Empress and
booty shorts and the Emperor,

you know, with a shirt off
doing dead lifts, that kind of stuff.

It was, it’s awesome.

I mean, if you haven’t looked at it,
you should absolutely go check out

the Imperial household of Japan’s Instagram
page and just, just, you know, get horny.

This year, they’ve decided
that that wasn’t enough.

The income from that isn’t enough for them.

They have more media in them.

They are going to start a YouTube channel.

The YouTube channel is going
to include press conferences.

Nature walks around the palace.

And I’m assuming pranks galore.

That’s right.

It’s going to be the Emperor
pulling down the Empress’s pants.

It’s going to be putting flower
in the Empress’s blow dryer.

So when she blows her head at all, it
gets all turns white on, it’s crazy stuff.

There’s a prince in there somewhere.

I don’t know what he’s going to
do, but I’m looking forward to it

because press conferences
sound really boring

and nature walks around
the Imperial Palace.

That’s very nice, but I don’t
imagine myself watching it

until we get some
pranks, just a prank, bro.

This week, because this story includes AI,

it just dominated the headlines
for the last like three days.

So deep A, I open AI.

The names of all the AI’s are very similar.

So anyways, Chachi
BT is what it’s actually is.

Started doing image.

So we have other image
and things where it’s

like you type in your
image you want it to make.

It makes the image, it’s really cool.

And it ruins the lives
of artists everywhere.

Well, open AI couldn’t be left in
the dust, couldn’t be left behind.

They created an image generator.

And one of the styles you
can do is a jibbly style image.

And this apparently has
overwhelmed the servers.

Like the guy who runs it,
Mr. Open AI, chat, Mr. GPT.

He said Tim Apple, I actually
probably have his name

written down and then I
now am refusing to say it.

And even if I could remember
it right now, I would not say it.

He was saying that there
were so many people generating

jibbly style pieces
of art, that it was like

melting their servers,
melting their CPU.

So they actually were
going to put a limit on it.

They were going to make
sure that people didn’t go crazy.

But that means this is
now flooded the internet.

Now, this is taken on because
me asaki, the guy who created

essentially the very noticeable
jibbly style of art, he hates AI.

They keep cutting to a clip where
he’s talking about how disgusting AI is.

But that’s actually out
of context a little bit.

So there’s this clip that
goes around with this

because he’s like, oh,
this lacks humanity.

And I would rather die
than see this and stuff.

These guys were doing
a presentation for him.

And they had an AI basically take a
structure and try to learn how to walk.

So it was walking in this
really awkward, creepy way.

And they were saying
like, if for your animation,

you could use animation like
this for the monsters and whatnot.

And then he got really offended.

And he actually was relating
it to a friend of his who

has physical difficulties of some
sort and who isn’t able to walk.

And he’s like, I wonder how
he would feel if he felt saw this.

I wonder, like, and
then he actually took it

off in his very honestly
unrelated direction.

But they’re taking that out of context.

So it’s kind of related, but it’s sort of,

I don’t know, I wouldn’t say
tangential, but more like parallel.

What he’s talking about is parallel

to what they’re actually
talking about in these news

stories, but they take
the clip and they put it in.

So this is sort of your media awareness.

I’m sure me as Aki actually hates the
idea of AI and art and things like that.

But the clip they’re showing
of him getting really angry

at these poor guys who
are really uncomfortable,

who are just presenting some
technology they had created.

This is about five, six years
ago before the whole AI boom.

That’s not actually
what he’s talking about.

He’s talking about this thing
you’ve made is like grotesque.

And I don’t think it has
any place in this sort

of the hopeful animation art style that I
try to create when I’m making my stories.

So that’s something to be aware
of if you read one of those stories,

not from an engineer’s Japan,
where they’re not going to

give you that excellent piece
of background information.

Yeah, the CEO of OpenAI,
he changed his profile pick

to a jibbly style version of his own face,
which is showing that even he’s like aware

of the actual distinct
style that’s being created.

Now the problem is the
argument about AI in the first place.

How did OpenAI learn
to make jibbly style art,

if it did not take jibbly
style art and learn

from it directly, which
is copyright violation?

This is kind of the problem
they’ve been talking about.

Like so clearly jibbly art
has been fed into this open AI.

Open AI is taking it and learned from it.

That’s okay.

What they’re supposed to do, but they didn’t
pay jibbly for the art that they used.

They didn’t ask if it was
okay to use this version.

They just went ahead and did it.

This is going to probably be a lawsuit.

Like if anyone’s going to sue
them, jibbly probably could do it

and could probably do it
successfully because I don’t know

if they’ve copy written the
style, but it is very distinct.

And it is every movie they
do has the very similar style.

Miyazaki is also quite famously a hardass.

So when they took, uh, I
forget what movie it was,

one of the older ones,
Mononoke, maybe they took one

of the jibbly movies and they
were going to release it in America

and Harvey Weinstein wanted to
cut it down to make it a little shorter.

He’s like, you know, all this is like
stupid emotion shit that you got in there.

Let’s cut some of that
out, make it a shorter movie.

It’ll grade it’ll fit better into
sort of the slots for the movies.

We maybe show more movies during the day.

It was that kind of like fiscal version
of movie making that Harvey Weinstein

would be on the side
of Miyazaki sent him a

samurai sword with a
single note that said no cuts.

And that is kind of a
threat that I will stab

you with a sword if you
try to cut up my movie.

So he is a bit of a hardass.

And again, he was just looking at a
technical presentation from some guys

and he went in them about how
inhumane it was and he was really awful.

He was actually really
awful to them because

he could’ve just said
this isn’t really for me.

I don’t really like this.

It doesn’t really apply
to what I would like

to do with my company
or my art and move on.

He didn’t.

He like reamed them
for how gross it was and

everyone was very uncomfortable in the
room and it was weirdly quite fun to watch.

Auto thefts are on the rise for
the third year in the row in Japan.

So in 2024 there were 6,080
auto thefts that’s up 318 from 2023.

Most of these cars do
not get like resold in Japan.

This is actually one of the more interesting
things I found about car theft in Japan

is what they do is they take the car and
they put it on a boat and they’ll take it

to like Vietnam or Cambodia or some
other country and they’ll resell the car

or they’ll break it down
into parts and then ship

it off to another country
and then rebuild it.

And the most popular car is to steal.

Like you would think
it was fancy luxury cars

mostly but actually it’s
like mini vans and stuff

more utilitarian things
because again they’re

going to sort of these
developing nations

and they want to sell them stuff they can
use so a mini van is far, far more useful

in a third world country than like a sports
car when you’re on dirt roads all the time

and what you really
need to do is transport

people to a worksite
or something like that.

Most of the thefts quite
sensibly are around Tokyo

and one of the biggest
problems is the technology

they’re using they’re
saying in three minutes

they now have this
basically car remote hacker

and it can like unlock
your car and start the

engine then they can
drive it away with that.

They can then you know copy the
key or remake the key or something.

So basically it’s all being
done with computers now.

It’s not like a cool guy
runs up and he jacks

the window and then
gets in the car and like

rubs two wires together
and starts the car.

Now it’s a very nerdy
doing on a laptop or

something and he unlocks
the car from a distance

using Wi-Fi and then
they get in and they drive

away and again they’re
driving it to a port

and this is in Aichi
this middle part of Japan

where the Toyota city is which was
actually created by Toyota the company.

There’s a lot of car
thefts there because

being a port city they
can actually steal the

car get it into a boat
really quick and then

get it out of the port and
on its way to its destination.

I don’t know how many
cars they put on a boat

but I’m assuming it’s a
lot which is this is like work.

Apparently in IT there are a lot
of luxury cars on the road which

is the ones they can sell to
China and other places like that.

So while I was saying
that isn’t the primary

target it is still a
target there are still

people who want to buy
expensive stolen cars and 2024 44.

1% of the cars were
not found or recovered.

So basically because
they’re being shipped out

to other countries
because they’re disappearing

from the country the
police aren’t able to

find them and again
they’re probably gone that

night or the next day like gone from the
country you will never see your car again.

So if you’re in Japan you
have a car please be careful.

We’ve covered a lot of
arrests on the Indonesia

pan we covered a lot of crimes and we’ve
covered a lot of like what you would call

almost meaningless crimes or
petty crimes or things like that.

This is an interesting one
because this woman was arrested

for taking 160 free items
from a convenience store.

So she basically walked into a convenience
store there’s the self-serve coffee machine

so you usually go to the clerk and you buy
a cup you take that cup and then you would

go to the machine you fill up the coffee
and you take like your creamer you put that

in and pay some sugar whatever
you like you put it in there.

That all those sort of condiment
style things those are free.

She walked in she didn’t buy coffee she had
a backpack she just started taking those

things and filling up her backpack so sugar
and creamers and everything else the like

cup syrup stuff which is I guess
sugar but not sugar I don’t know

I don’t drink coffee so none
of this is really familiar to me.

The total cost of the
160 item stolen was 345

yen so we’re talking
about like three dollars

maybe total but and again it’s the moral is
kind of the issue do you just let this go.

So this clerk went
over and he’s like oh all

the creamers and
sugars and stuff are gone

but we haven’t sold
that much coffee so they

checked the video
camera and they’re like

oh there’s that woman
with a backpack she just

stole it all to be let
it go so they called

the police I don’t know
how enthusiastic they

were like yeah this
lady just stole a bunch

of free stuff that’s not
actually okay they went

and found her picked her
up and she got arrested.

Japanese politicians
are weird now normally I

talk about the old men
normally I talk about

the old men politicians
who say something

gross and when I read
the first half of this

story my mind was oh this is going to be
an older Japanese politician he’s going to

be like in the 70s he’s
really gross he’s out

of touch and then it
turns out it’s a woman

talking to another woman which really sort
of turned it the element so my expectations

were under mine which
is a good thing I guess

so I guess women can
just be just as weird

and creepy as men
which equality I suppose

on March 24th they had
a house of counselors

committee on education
we’re meeting and

they were trying to
how to calculate teachers

over time this is very
important teachers in

Japan do a lot of unpaid
overtime they have breaks

that are unpaid they
do like school activities

as sometimes unpaid and they’re like you
know these people are working fifty sixty

seventy hours a week
but they’re only getting

paid thirty forty hours that’s not right we
have to calculate overtime what counts as

work and not work is
it volunteer should we

expect people to
volunteer stuff it’s a very

important thing Japan
doesn’t have enough teachers

so you need to make
teaching more appealing

and paying them for all
their hours is probably

going to be step one
to making more appealing

counselor stood up said
made some statements

and was very angry and
then another one replied

with I can clearly
understand that committee

member Kita has gotten angry with a truly
beautiful face which is weird I mean it’s

just a weird thing to
say like what does that

have to do with the other bit and why are
you saying it and so again my first thought

was seventy year old
creepy man saying that

like a thirty year old
forty year old counselor

member is beautiful
in his old creepy way

trying to put her down
but trying to compliment

her at the same time because he’s socially
unaware not capable something like that not

turns out this is
essentially an equal and

then it the question
of why like the old men

saying it I can’t understand the group in
a different time they grew up when saying

gross stuff was acceptable they never grew
out of that they never understood the world

has changed but this
is not that this is like

someone who is an
equivalency saying this

is weird creepy thing to
them and then of course

there was a media
protest the the kita said

like hey what is my
face after do it why are

you talking about my
body is inappropriate

of course later there
was the very standard

apology it’s weird cuz
when you call someone

beautiful do you
retract the statement do

you like cuz that’s the
classic Japanese one

as I retract my statement
but I yeah you know

I retract my statement
she’s not beautiful

like what do I say it
that so it’s really weird

I was very standard apology like I shouldn’t
know said that it was inappropriate I’m

sorry for the stress I
caused blah blah blah

when asked about her
intent which is again

the only thing I wanted
answered the response

was there were there was not much intention
which again begs the question of if there

wasn’t much intention why
did you do it in the first place

it just does that head right resting
next to the microphone this guy okay