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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

From what little I know of the way Japanese humour works, there's a decent chance this is all just a bit. There was a guy in Japan who married a different kind of virtual girlfriend not that long before LLMs hit the mainstream, and I heard from a few different Japanese people that he was almost certainly doing it as a joke. Apparently Japanese humour is very, very deadpan and they love seeing people really commit to the bit.

[–] PotatoLibre@feddit.it 1 points 1 hour ago

I can see a die hard macho culture lover doing this as a joke

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Japanese YouTube is pretty wild. It's even better not knowing what's exactly going on.

[–] TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 1 points 44 minutes ago

Got a couple examples?