Pure TokyoScope PODCAST #80: SORA OpenAI Takes Aim at Japan!
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture from Japan!
In the latest episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) discuss the VIRTUAL INSANITY surrounding the Japan-themed videos created by OpenAI's SORA software and tackle news from Japan!
EPISODE 80 SHOW NOTES
AI and Japan as a Safe Space by Matt Alt
OpenAI is American. Why is their latest product announcement so Japanese?
Japan just lost its crown as the world’s third-largest economy
"Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM" Sets Box Office Records, Grossing 2.68 Billion Yen approx $17.8 Million USD
GUNHED (1989) Click for Full Movie
Original Casting Choices for Deckard in Blade Runner
Weekly World News, 1992
What is the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast? Well… Author and fellow Substack writer Matt Alt and I have been recording together for about a year now. I still can’t believe we’ve made it all the way to episode 53.
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