Overview

• The Tokyo Metropolitan Police on September 29 sent a Fujisawa university student to prosecutors on suspicion of distributing obscene images and simple gambling.
• Investigators say the posters depicted a non-existent woman created with generative AI and were downloaded from overseas sites before being processed for sale.
• Roughly 300 posters labeled as “AI beauties” were sold on an auction site from August to October 2024 for ¥300–¥2,000 each, yielding about ¥280,000.
• The student told police he sold the posters to fund betting at overseas online casinos, wagering about ¥600,000–¥630,000 from February 2024 to July 2025 and finishing roughly ¥200,000 down.
• Police note similar April cases in which four people were arrested for selling AI-generated obscene images and later received summary prosecutions, underscoring a recurring problem.