Nipponica

The Japanese government plans to promote the use of generative artificial intelligence and other digital technologies to support the teaching of the Japanese language to children with foreign roots, sources close to the matter said Thursday.

Guidelines are expected to be drawn up to utilize generative AI for effective teaching methods for other subjects in addition to Japanese, amid a shortage of staff who can accommodate the native tongues of varying languages such as Portuguese, Chinese and Spanish.

This is bad. Everyone has been shitting on Duolingo for years for its gamification but it was a decent language learning app. But the quality plummeted when they went AI-first recently. Expand that enshittification to an entire cohort in Japanese schools and the results are catastrophic. I understand the issue with staffing shortages but this isn't the way.