{"id":474872,"date":"2025-10-05T02:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T02:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/474872\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T02:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T02:15:11","slug":"japan-politician-says-nintendo-is-lobbying-with-government-to-push-against-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/474872\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan: Politician says Nintendo is lobbying with government to push against AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese politician Satoshi Asano has revealed in a<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Asano__Satoshi\/status\/1974084565749973202\"> lengthy post on X<\/a> that Nintendo currently lobbying with the Japanese government in a coordinated effort to push back against the threats from Artificial Intelligence. While it\u2019s not explicitly stated, it seems as though Nintendo is trying to protect their IP, which is something the Kyoto-based company has been doing for many years on a number of fronts. Here\u2019s a rough translation:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you all for your comments and opinions on my recent post about generative AI yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>While I recognize the convenience of generative AI, this discussion has once again made me realize how important it is to protect creators\u2019 rights. I sincerely take to heart the fact that my post has sparked debate.<\/p>\n<p>Upon researching the matter, I found that in a past dispute,\u00a0Yomiuri Shimbun\u00a0filed a lawsuit against\u00a0Perplexity AI\u00a0in 2025, seeking around\u00a02.17 billion yen\u00a0in damages for unauthorized use of its articles.\u00a0Nikkei Shimbun\u00a0and\u00a0Asahi Shimbun\u00a0have filed similar lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>Overseas,\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0has sued\u00a0OpenAI, and\u00a0Getty Images\u00a0has sued\u00a0Stability AI\u00a0over copyright infringement.<\/p>\n<p>In Japan, recent initiatives include the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry publishing a\u00a0\u201cGuidebook for the Use of Generative AI in Content Creation\u201d, which recommends checking AI-generated works for similarities to existing copyrighted materials. More companies, such as\u00a0DeNA, are developing AI systems using their own proprietary data. Meanwhile,\u00a0Nintendo\u00a0avoids using generative AI to protect its intellectual property and is also engaged in lobbying efforts with the government.<\/p>\n<p>As Representative\u00a0Tamaki\u00a0stated in his post, our party plans to promote the\u00a0ethical use of generative AI\u00a0while considering\u00a0stricter regulations. We will take into account the valuable feedback we\u2019ve received from creators and work toward implementing effective measures.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome your continued opinions and input.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tLike this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japanese politician Satoshi Asano has revealed in a lengthy post on X that Nintendo currently lobbying with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-474872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}