The report by experts including the University of Tokyo professor Fujio Toriumi and Keio University professor Tatsuhiko Yamamoto said Generative artificial intelligence AI could be a poison apple.
The report, which was released today, is the second such paper compiled by the experts since January 2022.
The report emphasised the importance of information health, indicating that internet users have the ability to counter wrong information by consuming content from a variety of sources.
The report reveals concerns about generative AI and warns that generated text could be disseminated without knowledge of the source material used to produce the content.
As generative AI tools can produce semblenced answers to questions, the technology could be a poison apple that adversely affects our information health, experts said.
The report outlines the roles played by telecommunications companies and advertising agencies and focuses on education and IT literacy.
The experts proposed the introduction of a system to measure information health and the development of IT literacy educational materials, among other recommendations.
The document identified issues like fake news and filter bubbles, where internet users encounter only information that reinforces their own beliefs.
The report included 16 co-authors, including professor Kuniyoshi Sakai, a professor in the University of Tokyo who specializes in the neuroscience of language. Toriumi is a expert in computational social science and Yamamoto is an expert in constitutional law.
We d like to promote the concept of information health not only in Japan but also globally, he said.