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<p>TOKYO, Japan — Japanese police have arrested four people for selling obscene images created using generative AI in the first crackdown of its kind, a police spokesman and local media reports said Tuesday.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/10/16/philippines-working-with-ai-providers-to-root-out-deepfakes-1030">Philippines working with AI providers to root out deepfakes</a></div><p>The four, who allegedly made posters and sold them online, &quot;were arrested on Monday on suspicion of selling obscene images&quot;, a Tokyo police spokesman told AFP.</p><p>They sold them on auction sites several times last October, criminal acts for which they face up to two years in prison, fines of up to 2.5 million yen ($17,500), or both, he said.</p><p>Public broadcaster NHK and other media outlets said the suspects used free AI software to create images of naked adult women who do not exist in the real world.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/technology/2025/3/19/tech-firms-fight-to-stem-deepfake-deluge-1753">Tech firms fight to stem deepfake deluge</a></div><p>They used prompts including terms such as &quot;legs open&quot;.</p><p>The four, aged in their 20s to 50s, reportedly sold the posters for several thousand yen (around $20-50) each.</p><p>Tuesday&#x27;s reports said the arrests were Japan&#x27;s first for allegedly selling AI-created obscene images, which police could not immediately confirm.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/technology/2025/3/16/-romance-bots-deepfake-digital-twins-seen-as-rising-cybersecurity-concerns-1929">&#x27;Romance bots, deepfake digital twins, malvertising&#x27; seen as rising cybersecurity concerns</a></div><p>Concern is growing worldwide over the use of AI for malicious purposes including through deepfakes, which turn genuine photos, video or audio of people into false likenesses.</p><p>Around 96 percent of deepfake videos online are non-consensual pornography, and most of them depict women, according to a 2019 study by the Dutch AI company Sensity.</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cc-dEN_PpsE?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>Japanese police have arrested four people for selling obscene images created using generative AI in the first crackdown of its kind.</p>

Japanese police have arrested four people for selling obscene images created using generative AI in the first crackdown of its kind.

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Japan arrests four for obscene AI images

Japan arrests four for obscene AI images

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Published Apr 15, 2025 07:37 PM PHT

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