About a quarter of South Koreans already pay for AI services, compared to just 2% of Americans
South Korea is preparing to offer free generative AI services to its entire population, using the technology to help people handle everyday tasks such as booking medical appointments, finding housing, and sorting out taxes.
The program is intended to expand access to homegrown AI systems while giving the government a larger role in how they are used for everyday services.



I get it. And even though this arrangement gives me some major government-corporate complex ick, I think it’s better for all of us to limit the global reach of the US and Chinese mass surveillance operations.
The entire SK economy is built upon major government-corporate complex ick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_rage_incident
Risky click of the day.
Btw, were we already giving -gate suffixes to everything in 2014?
Remember tan suit-gate? Mustardgate? Of course we were
Oh man, my memory from 2010s are fading away already. Thanks for the reminder.
I’m still waiting to see who implements cyberpunk first: the Sovereign Chaebol of Samsung or the United State of FAANG.
The technology isn’t useful enough in the short term to afford crippling your labor force in the long term. Stop using it.
SK’s population problems too, and its worse than japans.