Interesting and somewhat depressing news that the brilliant holographic AI assistant from Japanese company Gatebox is being ‘Westernized’ for American and European Millennial audiences. Gone is the adorable teenage anime girl, and in her place is an ’empowered’ and assertive American woman, complete with shoulder pads – and even a middle-aged man.
Activists have in the past claimed that more should be done to protect AI assistants such as Alexa and Siri from ‘sexual harassment’, and even forced Baidu to drop their own sexy AI assistant ‘Vivi’.
