TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a person from Hokkaido Prefecture who’s suspected of utilizing generative AI to create a whole bunch of hundreds of obscene pictures of feminine celebrities, reviews the Sankei Shimbun (Jan. 20).
Between December 2024 and May 2025, Tatsuro Chiba, 31, is suspected of posting over a dozen obscene pictures on-line, making them viewable by an unspecified variety of customers.
Upon his arrest on suspicion of displaying obscene electromagnetic pictures on Monday, Chiba, who lives in Sapporo City, Hokkaido, admitted to the allegations. “I used the money for travel expenses to chase after celebrities,” he stated.
Starting across the summer time of 2023, Chiba educated a generative AI instrument with pictures of roughly 300 individuals, together with feminine idols. He then created over 500,000 faux obscene pictures.
The suspect is believed to have made roughly 11 million yen by posting them on a members-only web site the place customers might view them for a price and in addition creating pictures upon request.
To create the pictures, Chiba used a free generative AI instrument, on-line articles and different sources. The cash he made was used for leisure and different bills.
“Sexually explicit deepfakes”
Such pictures created utilizing generative AI are known as “sexually explicit deepfakes.” Recently, this content material, not solely concentrating on celebrities but additionally strange individuals, has been misused.
In one case, a male workplace employee made a pornographic video of a feminine colleague that was derived from a gathering. He then shared it with colleagues. In one other occasion, a center college scholar made pornographic pictures of feminine college students from an occasion album. He, too, shared the pictures.
This month, the federal government requested that the working firm of X take measures following a pointy improve within the posting of sexually express pictures made utilizing the generative AI instrument Grok.