Half of Japan’s teenage girls use AI for “advice on problems,” including the daughter of former Yomiuri Giant’s manager Shinnosuke Abe. She called Child Protective Services after consulting ChatGPT, and was surprised when the police showed up at their house

I must secretly be a Japanese teen girl in my 30’s. 

There was another article today talking about the dangers of AI use among teenage boys in the UK, and there is a serious problem, especially in the way many AI designed to maximize user attention and repeat interaction, in many ways it is a form of psychological grooming. That said, there are many areas of life where Japanese teens need advice and feedback that they certainly aren’t getting from friends, family, teachers, etc. and there is a lot of room for AI assistants, especially if specifically designed to give life-affirming, health and well-being oriented advice, to provide guidance for teenagers without alternate support systems.

AI is one of the clever ways to share private information with social media giants. I wonder what they do with that information…