False rumors that Taiwanese spread trash at World Baseball Classic at Tokyo Dome go viral across Japanese social media. The images appear to have been AI generated

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/336d27bb2017a40a2bb107c9c8c6fb7817d931d3

5 Comments

  1. Not surprised. I often sense a certain amount of racial superiority complex around the trash issue in Japan. People go out of their way to racialize it in a weird way

  2. I find it hard to believe. The Taiwanese team didnt even do a champagne celebration when they won the Premier 12 tournament, because they didnt want to “desecrate “ the “sacred place for Japanese pro baseball”

  3. Cheerful2_Dogman210x on

    It looks like some groups are trying to cause conflict between Japanese and Taiwanese citizens.

    It’s good that people were able to realize that these images were ai generated.

  4. At times like these I also believe the numbers behind what makes something “viral” are also fake. Easy to boost view numbers but does anyone really care that much about twitter? Just sad, lonely people doom scrolling being fed a bunch of hate.