4 arrested in Japan for selling explicit AI-created posters

Posters..?

The suspects displayed posters with censored images in the online auctions. However, they shipped uncensored versions to customers.

They fraud customers, they show their items as censored but the customers got the uncensored versions!

Apparently to avoid being banned from selling the items, the suspects displayed posters with censored images in the online auctions. However, they shipped uncensored versions to customers.

There is the real problem: Japan can no longer claim to be pure because of its tiny censorship bars.

Meanwhile on the front cover of pervert manga sold legally in book shops, for all kids to see at eye level.

I thought they were arrested for selling deepfake images but re article

arrested Monday on the charge of distributing and displaying obscene objects to unspecified buyers.

Censorship is so silly considering you can often LEGALLY pay for photo sessions (and much much more) with many popular adult actresses.

So... Arrested for selling uncensored CG pornographic images.

No pictures, of course

Assuming they are not fake of any particular person (not clear in the article), who is the victim here?

Prostitution, legal. Imaginary porn art without little bars, illegal. Whew, somebody think of the children!

These were not real people, nobody got exploitive

Selling pornographic products in Japan is regulated under Article 175 of the Penal Code. And advertising censored items while delivering uncensored ones would clearly violate that. But as anime and manga are exempt from this, it will be interesting to see how the Courts will treat an AI produced item.

No copyrights were broken?

No real people were being used?

No payoff for the cops?

No one actually buys posters in 2025?

What's the issue here?

Oh wait, there it is............

Unspecified buyers? WTF does that even mean? Japan's slowly turning into the UK.

I remember the good ol' days when anyone could buy junior idol dvds directly from store shelves. Now, Japan's run by a bunch of phucking prudes. The modern world is garbage.

Prostitution, legal. Imaginary porn art without little bars, illegal.

Prostitution is illegal in Japan.

There are just a lot of loopholes.

That's a good start!!

That there was a demand says something

Anime and Manga is just as pornography

In Japan, there are no laws clearly restricting pornographic deepfake images,

Why are these Orwellian "Cyber Police" going after these people of these laws don't even exist???

Hard to find a "victim " here...which is unusual given most criminal law requires one.

What is the "wrong " the law is seeking to prevent ?

AI generated imagery probably, actually definitely, better than real world sleaze in terms of abuse of women .

I do not see an issue unless it is illegal.

Japan doesn’t have a sex offenders’ register, still allows sexualised images of children in magazines and regularly lets sex criminals off with suspended sentences.

Of course it doesn’t have a law concerning deepfake pornographic images.

There is a general law in the article 175 of the criminal code of Japan, and an obscenity test because of some hupheld ruling,

A work is considered obscene if it "arouses and stimulates sexual desire, offends a common sense of modesty or shame, and violates proper concepts of sexual morality".

Now we have an additional local culprit to the fall in demography as this test has been becoming more and more implemented in my opinion, to the point it has become ridiculous nowadays, with last change in 2007 with a first manga obscenity trial showing guiltry the creators of hentai manga Misshitsu..

Becoming the journalist that JT lacks...

I would be interested in knowing how Japan would have turned out without the US imposed constitution

arrested for ai imagery of obscene content to private buyers. Oh my, I know Japan is heavy handed and overbearing but FTLOG, come on! It isn't real people, and it isn't non-consensual. These customers made a purchase and again, its AI !! FFS

One of the weirdest things I have read this year.

Imagine Yakuza roaming free, business and usual, while the police chasing erotic Ai poster sellers and making a big fuss about it!

You can only read this in Japan, I swear...

Bravo to the boys in blue. Let’s make sure these perverts do some serious time, no doubt the police will check their devices and uncover more sordid filth and bring further charges.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again ban all pornography and AI.

I agree with you regarding AI, Steve.

I get charging them for using real people’s faces. But the generated people is weird. Probably ran afoul of some the censors. I guess even self published works need to be censored if your selling them even to private individuals.

This is so silly. Japan needs to get with the times. Also its one thing to create deep fakes of real people but it sounds like they even said that the images were generated with AI so what's the problem? There is worse hentai I've seen in manga form that depicts some truly heinous things but that's ok to sell and make money off. So basically they got in trouble because it didn't have the silly mosaic pixels over the bits? You can see anything online here in japan as long as it was produced over seas so really this rule is moot. These kind of things need to go the way of the dinosaurs.