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Man Arrested For Uncensoring Japanese Porn With AI In First Deepfake Case (vice.com) 73

Posted by BeauHD from the first-case-of-its-kind dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Japanese police on Monday arrested a 43-year-old man for using artificial intelligence to effectively unblur pixelated porn videos, in the first criminal case in the country involving the exploitative use of the powerful technology. Masayuki Nakamoto, who runs his own website in the southern prefecture of Hyogo, lifted images of porn stars from Japanese adult videos and doctored them with the same method used to create realistic face swaps in deepfake videos. But instead of changing faces, Nakamoto used machine learning software to reconstruct the blurred parts of the video based on a large set of uncensored nudes and sold the content online. Penises and vaginas are pixelated in Japanese porn because an obscenity law forbids the explicit depictions of genitalia.

Nakamoto reportedly made about $96,000 by selling over 10,000 manipulated videos, though he was arrested specifically for selling 10 fake photos at about $20 each. Nakamoto pleaded guilty to charges of copyright violation and displaying obscene images and said he did it for money, according to NHK. He was caught when police conducted a "cyber patrol," the Japanese broadcaster reported. "This is the first case in Japan where police have caught an AI user," Daisuke Sueyoshi, a lawyer who's tried cybercrime cases, told VICE World News. "At the moment, there's no law criminalizing the use of AI to make such images." For example, Nakamoto was not charged with any offenses for violating the privacy of the actors in the videos.
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  • Hilariously it's not obscenity laws (Score:5, Funny)

    by rsilvergun ( 571051 ) on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:07PM (#61911585)
    They're upper cast thinks that if the lower cast can look at porn without pixels they won't bother having real sex and there won't be any babies being born. That's why this nonsense still flies in 2021.

    • Re:Hilariously it's not obscenity laws (Score:4)

      by shanen ( 462549 ) on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:18PM (#61911641) Homepage Journal

      You must mean "caste", but it's still funny. Both of the other top-level, presumably FP candidate, comments also deserve Funny mods. (As of this writing.)

      However it's worth nothing that the birth rate in Japan is well below replacement level. But they still don't want immigrants. They'd prefer to use more robots.

      Trying to justify your Subject: Japan is mostly about virtual sex these days. For profit. He was arrested for interfering with the profits. (My theory of the case is that he was violating copyright by reselling the "improved" pron [sic] at higher prices.)

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by shanen ( 462549 )

        No timing. None. Humor is almost entirely about timing, and I have none.

        I forgot to mention the Japanese sex robots. Not pixilated.

        Somewhere near the undesired non-Japanese immigrants to make up the difference. (Returnee immigrants are another special case.)

      • Naah, he was set up by the tentacle mafia, if you have real penises in pr0n videos then there's no need for tentacles any more.

    • Re:Hilariously it's not obscenity laws (Score:4, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:21PM (#61911669)

      One unintended consequence of the pixel censoring was anime tentacle porn. And Japan has one of the lowest birth rates in the world, because real sex absolutely cannot compete with tentacle porn.
      They might not be right, but are they wrong?

    • Re:Hilariously it's not obscenity laws (Score:4)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 ) on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:21PM (#61911671) Homepage Journal

      Japan has a huge problem with population decline, bad enough that they have a government minister in charge of dealing with it.

      The censorship laws are just prudishness, and an industry that doesn't really want to change them because it lets them get away with a lot. The actors don't have to look so good down there, they don't even have to have real sex. Strap ons with pneumatic cum pumps make for spectacular movies and the censorship makes it easy to hide. Plus a lot of actors won't work without condoms, but they can pretend otherwise.

      • If memory serves me correctly the law was established by MacArthur and was actually pretty permissive for the time period. I really think status quo being god accounts for the rest. You're almost implying that the porn industry has a powerful ability to lobby. Then again, maybe it does.

      • Re:Hilariously it's not obscenity laws (Score:5, Interesting)

        by beepsky ( 6008348 ) on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:56PM (#61911791)
        Yeah.
        The worst part is Japan only banned stuff like uncensored porn and prostitution because they didn't want to be colonised by prudish Europeans who would see them as barbarians for it.
        Japan was originally (and still is more or less) extremely sexually liberated; they don't have the dumb Christian view that sex is shameful

        • Japan was originally (and still is more or less) extremely sexually liberated; they don't have the dumb Christian view that sex is shameful

          It's also extremely misogynistic, which is how they can have a penis festival but also cite a woman for paddling a vagina kayak. Yeah, look it up, it's more fun that way.

          • It is not misogynistic. The law was set up to protect women in post war Japan from being forced into prostitution and porn by predatory individuals. The determining factor is whether the item is sexually arousing. The penis festival isn't, it is a religious festival. She wasn't arrested for the kayak. She was arrested for sending 3D printer data of her scanned vagina through email which is a violation of Japan's obscenity laws.

            • It is not misogynistic. The law was set up to protect women in post war Japan from being forced into prostitution and porn by predatory individuals.

              It didn't accomplish that, and there are better ways to accomplish that, so I don't buy that argument for even a nanosecond.

              • So, you are going to ignore known history and facts in favor of your ignorance and personal biases. Got it.

        • Yet the evidence seems to indicate that Christians continue actively and enthusiastically reproduce?

          It's almost like you're disingenuously strawmanning a billion people into a pigeonhole based what even you have to recognize are a teensy minority of cases.

          Once must wonder why someone would go to that creative effort to hate a billion people.

        • Prostitution is technically banned, but the very narrow definition of it as "penis in vagina intercourse" means there's a lot of prostitution going on both trough legal businesses like "massage" parlors and unofficial stuff like "compensated dating", which is often a cover for outright prostitution and sometimes performed by minors.

          No, the real western influence is in that they've banned sex and the sexualization of minors, something that's been considered totally fine and normal for for literally centur
    • Japan is a funny place. It's a country that loves prostitution, objectifies and treats women poorly and has a generally lewd attitude toward sex that would harken back to 1960s in the west. So it's pretty hilarious that a country of heathens have a law that requires censoring genitalia in porn.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      > That's why this nonsense still flies in 2021.

      It's not nonsense. I sustain myself purely through jacking off.

    • Just wait until both sides realise the internet is chock full of free porn.

  • Lol, the blurred parts. Vajayjay bits are banned. (Score:5, Interesting)

    by iamnotx0r ( 7683968 ) on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:10PM (#61911611)
    I love this new technology world. So many new things to make unlawful.

  • I am amazed (Score:5, Funny)

    by bobstreo ( 1320787 ) on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:11PM (#61911613)

    You mean the Japanese really don't all have pixilated genitals?

  • Color me surprised (Score:3)

    by PopeRatzo ( 965947 ) on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:30PM (#61911701) Journal

    I just thought Japanese people had naturally blurry private parts. Live and learn.

  • Genitals: bad Tentacles: oh, wow, how did THAT get THERE?

  • Disappointing (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    The article about deepfaked pictures showed zero examples.

  • "Cyber patrol" eh? (Score:3)

    by Rosco P. Coltrane ( 209368 ) on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:38PM (#61911737)

    He was caught when police conducted a "cyber patrol,"

    This reads likes the cops were browsing porn down at the station and tried to style it out as an official investigation into lewd content online.

    • Why do I get this vision of Judge Dredd smashing down the door, pistol whipping the guy and dragging him through thirty feet of broken glass and steel shavings?

    • Exactly this. And then their captain walked in on them. What else were they to do but arrest some poor schmuck?

  • A surprise (Score:3)

    by guacamole ( 24270 ) on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:43PM (#61911743)

    I am surprised that they have someone enforcing this kind of laws.

    • It's because he was surely annoying someone.

    • Police actually enforce laws in some countries rather than just going around and harassing minorities. I mean what else are the Japanese police going to do? They have the 8th lowest crime rate in the world. 7th if you discount countries with populations under 100k.

    • Japanse police are known for having the slightly silly problem that they just don't have enough crimes to genuinely keep them busy.

      This combined with the Japanese general xenophobia is also why they're infamous among the expat community for harassing foreigners. Doing things like enforcing things like enforcing no smoking signs they simply don't bother enforcing with locals and spending their time checking the foreign residency permit of any foreign-looking person they run into. You constantly hear stori
  • > Nakamoto was not charged with any offenses for violating the privacy of the actors in the videos.
    Really pisses me off that people think deepfakes should be a crime.
    It's in the fucking name deep FAKE.
    Stop trying to gimp this promising technology with bullshit luddite crybaby laws calling it "revenge porn" or whatever. It's no different to someone drawing a picture of you doing the dirty, other than the fact that it's done by a computer.
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  • OMG (Score:5, Funny)

    by nospam007 ( 722110 ) * on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @06:18PM (#61911859)

    Copyright violation will be the reason the next Al Capone will be caught.

  • We need details (Score:5, Funny)

    by Dutch Gun ( 899105 ) on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @08:08PM (#61912103)

    So, how did he do this exactly? What software did he use? My interest is purely academic, of course.

  • Deepfake is usually when someone is inserted into a scene they had nothing to do with; this guy used AI to insert other peopleâ(TM)s naked parts over

    • If I understand correctly they're invented genitals, not someone else's.

      • Re: Buzzwords (Score:4, Interesting)

        by gweihir ( 88907 ) on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @10:02PM (#61912339)

        If I understand correctly they're invented genitals, not someone else's.

        It is probably an average of the training data, averaged again with what is not blurred in the original. If it works well, it will look realistic, but it will indeed be nobodies equipment that is on display. Next step is to do this full body from simplified body models. "Porn actor/actress" may become something were you do motion-capturing and no nudity or actual sex involved.

  • For dropping an atomic bomb on somebody.

    Your porn is blurred forever.

  • The country that will let people make videos of a girl putting an eel in her butt, but draws the line at showing a vagina. Strange place.

  • "At the moment, there's no law criminalizing the use of AI to make such images."

    It seems to me like there are at least 2 such laws already.

    Nakamoto pleaded guilty to charges of copyright violation and displaying obscene images [...]

  • How long until "This vagina doesn't exist" and "This penis doesn't exist" websites arrive? You know they are coming...

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