Expert: ‘Yokai’ ghouls dwell in ChatGPT in modern times (Asahi Shimbun)

Asahi Shimbun: Expert: ‘Yokai’ ghouls dwell in ChatGPT in modern times. “Masanobu Kagawa [is] the chief curator at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of History, and the first Japanese to get his doctorate in the study of yokai. In an interview with The Asahi Shimbun, Kagawa said their nonexistent existence is an essential characteristic of yokai. He also said artificial intelligences that present themselves as human are a modern form of yokai. What makes them scary is that you can’t tell them apart from humans, he added.”