[PRIVACY CONCERN UPDATE] – This new AI chat system contains an egregious violation of data privacy. As per the "Use of Information" agreement before you can start using this AI system, a user agreeing to this will allow the following (quote):
Contents such as the text of the 15 most recent messages sent and received in the Talk Rooms you use.
This is taken from the agreement page that appears when you tap the AI button. Feel free to check for yourself. If anyone you know in your chat list chooses to use this feature, they are unwittingly releasing your messages to this AI slop machine. So not only are they so lazy they don't want to talk to you, they're also giving away your data without your consent. I have contacted LINE on this matter, and I encourage everyone to do the same. /update
And no, not the sort where you get to chat with your dream waifu. Rather you can now give Line the ability for AI to analyse your private conversations, and have it suggest replies on your behalf.
To do this it has added an "AI" icon button into the typed text window of every regular chat you have, meaning you get less real estate for actual words to be typed. While you can choose to not use it, you cannot disable the icon. But that's fair, why have space for typing when you're not going to be typing anymore?
I for one welcome our chat bot overlords. No longer will I be dragged into the mundane task of actually chatting with friends. What a hassle that was.
edit: Apologies, I forgot an important point – If you want to use the service, it'll cost you 750 Japonaise shmeckles a month.
by shambolic_donkey