cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/46457583

Why are legislators wasting their time on this? Protecting the voices/images of actors/actresses should be the least of legislators concerns when it comes to AI. Think resource waste/environmental damage.

  • Japan is hyper capitalistic and also very conservative country, which is why the naturally enforce the made up concept of intellectual property. Also since they do value corporate interests above all else naturally they aren’t going to care as much about negative impacts of corporations on the environment as they otherwise might.