Drawing the Line | 'Are you betraying Japan?'

Generated with AI; Produced by Li Mingzhi, Lu Dong and Lou Qingqing

"Are you betraying Japan?" That was the accusation hurled at an AI model by a Japanese netizen after it accurately described Japan's wartime aggression in the Asia-Pacific during the World War II. The complaint lays bare the ongoing efforts of Japanese right-wing forces to whitewash history and manipulate public perception.

Taking their historical revisionism a step further, these groups are now attempting to feed falsified data into mainstream AI models to glorify Japan's wartime atrocities. It is a desperate bid to shake off postwar pacifist constraints and accelerate the country's remilitarization.