People need to understand policy making is not some binary battle between 'billionaires and commoners'. Let me give you the context behind this decision. 1. Ja

People need to understand policy making is not some binary battle between 'billionaires and commoners'. Let me give you the context behind this decision. 1. Japan is horrifically behind in software engineering compared to its neighbours, especially China. This is because of a culture that undervalues software engineers (Who don't tend to thrive in a lifetime employment/de-facto unionised environment) 2. This has started to lead into an existential threat to its entertainment industry. Genshin Impact is the most successful anime-styled game in existence (including in Japan), yet it is made by China. Why? Because China could get top tier students to work on the games, making a mobile game on a technical level that is impossible to match by Japan. 3. Now AI is out, and China is behind US, but still far ahead of Japan. Japan has two choices: A: Let Chinese companies train their models on all of Japan's cultural outputs (All of anime/manga). Then those companies will both use the models to produce output, and sell the models back to Japanese companies. Making Japan lose by every definition. Most of the top SD anime finetunes are made by Chinese enthusiasts. So this is not a prediction, its already a reality. B: Go all in on pro-AI policies. Giving Japanese companies legal certainty to start training their own large models. Japanese artists will still suffer losses, but at least the profits stay in Japan. I should note Japan's artists are also not losing out that much. Anime, despite being extremely popular, is currently in complete production collapse, with even flagship shows having regular unscheduled 'breaks' because of production chaos. This collapse is because of lack of low level animators, who are so poorly paid that no one is joining the profession, and is generally outsourced anyways. AI isn't killing well paid jobs, it is replacing an already unviable job. Japan will still dominate in the higher tiers of production, and won't even need to outsource anything anymore.