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Women AI image incident — Apr 2025
Four individuals in Japan were arrested for selling explicit posters featuring AI-generated images of women via online auctions.
- Incident date
- Apr 15, 2025
- Target
- Women (images of women were generated)
Updated May 6, 2026 · 1 min read
Four individuals in Japan were arrested for selling explicit posters featuring AI-generated images of women via online auctions. They used freely available AI software to generate explicit images and sold the posters as 'AI beauty'. They displayed censored images in online auctions but shipped uncensored versions to customers.