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The question is seldom the tool itself. It is whether the people handing it out are trusted — and these threads are unusually good at telling the difference.

  • Reading the mood 2026-08-06 114 comments Rakuten is giving every shop an AI manager. Nobody asked. An AI store manager in every Rakuten shop, 24/7, plus a "super agent" that books and pays for you. The most-upvoted comment was not excitement and not fear. It was "users don't actually want this." What Japan distrusts is not the AI — it is the company handing it out.

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