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Uncannily Real AI Video and Fears That Programming Jobs Are Finished
Culture

Uncannily Real AI Video and Fears That Programming Jobs Are Finished

Clips combining OpenAI's ChatGPT-6 Astra with ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 looked real enough that viewers 'couldn't tell,' while a thread declaring programmers—especially SES and freelancers—finished set off a jobs debate. The product releases are real, but the job-apocalypse claims are opinion, and reactions split between swapping AI 'tells,' fearing deepfake fraud, and forecasting a widening skills divide.

Japan Studies Numerical Targets for Foreign Workers as Permanent Residency Rules Tighten
Politics

Japan Studies Numerical Targets for Foreign Workers as Permanent Residency Rules Tighten

The government has begun studying numerical targets for foreign worker intake, with a basic policy due next March, and separately settled on tightening permanent residency rules so that income should as a rule exceed the average for Japanese households. Japanese commenters largely welcomed the stricter residency bar while pushing back hard on wider intake, arguing domestic non-workers and automation should come first and that cheap imported labor holds wages down.