{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-21T07:52:22.540Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"generative_ai","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"2026","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":0,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-tokyo-police-say-man-used-generative-ai-to-make-nude-images-from-womans-junior-high-gym-photo-at-high-school-students-request","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"2人の逮捕、書類送検容疑は共謀して2月11日、40代女性が中学1年だったころの体育着姿の画像を生成AIで全裸などに加工し、作成したわいせつな偽画像「性的ディープフェイク」2点をSNS上のグループに投稿したとしている。","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"男は２月１１日、実在する４０歳代女性が中学１年時に体操着姿で撮影された写真をもとに、生成ＡＩで性的に加工する「性的ディープフェイク」によって虚偽のわいせつ画像２点を作成し、ＳＮＳに投稿して女性の名誉を傷つけるなどした疑い。逮捕は今月１日。","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to the police, on 11 February 2026 the man and the student, acting together, used generative AI to turn a photo of a woman in her 40s from her first year of junior high school, in gym clothes, into two fake nude images and posted them to a social-media group.","causal_attribution":"Police allegations relayed by two newspapers; both rest on the police investigation, so the claim is reported."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"会社員男は別の20代の女性3人についても、同様に加工したわいせつな画像をSNS上に投稿した疑いが持たれている。 警視庁少年育成課によると、2人と被害女性らに面識はなかった。 押収した会社員男のスマートフォンから、わいせつな画像や動画計約3800点が見つかっており、警視庁はほかにも依頼を受けていたとみて捜査している。","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Police say the man is also suspected of posting similar edits of three women in their 20s, that neither suspect knew the women, and that about 3,800 obscene images and videos were found on his phone.","causal_attribution":"Police account via the Sankei."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"同庁は、男が同様に生成ＡＩを悪用して、陸上のユニホームや体操着姿の女性を加工したわいせつ画像約３００枚を作成し、ＳＮＳ上のグループに１００枚程度を投稿したとみている。このうち半数程度は男子生徒の依頼で作成したとみられるという。 男は調べに、「グループのみんなに喜んでもらえるのがうれしかった」などと容疑を認めている。","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The Yomiuri, citing investigative sources, reports that police believe the man made about 300 such images and posted about 100, about half at the student's request, and that he admitted the allegations.","causal_attribution":"Investigative sources via the Yomiuri."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"逮捕は今月１日。 ... 同庁は３日、この男子生徒についても、児童買春・児童ポルノ禁止法違反（公然陳列）容疑などで東京地検に書類送検する方針。","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The man was arrested on 1 August 2026 and the student was to be referred to prosecutors on 3 August on suspicion of public display of child pornography and other offences.","causal_attribution":"Procedural status reported by the Yomiuri."}],"effects":[{"label":"fake nude images made with AI from a woman's junior-high photo posted to a social-media group (police account)","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.sankei.com/article/20260803-4EUQRIBT4BMDDFNUEOPUJGFDLU/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ja","translation_note":"Read in Japanese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-21 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer. Sankei Shimbun, 3 Aug 2026, attributing the account to the Metropolitan Police Department (juvenile division). HTTP 200.","independence_group":"tokyo-mpd-aug-2026-sankei"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/20260803-GYT1T00023/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ja","translation_note":"Read in Japanese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-21 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer. Yomiuri Shimbun, 3 Aug 2026, citing investigative sources; its own reporting of the same police investigation. HTTP 200.","independence_group":"tokyo-mpd-aug-2026-yomiuri"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["Which generative AI tool and which social-media service were used.","How the women learned of the images and how they responded.","How many other women are depicted in the roughly 300 images.","Whether prosecutors charge either suspect and what a court decides."],"geography":{"basis":"The investigation is by Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department and the reports give the suspects' prefectures of residence, but they do not say where the images were made or posted from or where the women live; residence and the investigating force are not used to locate the event.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): Tokyo police say generative AI was used to turn a woman's junior-high photo into fake nude images posted online, at a high-school student's request, and the man admitted it. No suspect or victim is named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-21"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The investigating Tokyo police say the images were made by processing real women's photos with generative AI into fake nude images ('性的ディープフェイク'), and the man admitted the allegations according to both reports. The AI-generated depiction of the woman, posted to a social-media group, is the harm police treat as defamation. The tool is not named and the technical basis of the police finding is not described.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Tokyo police say a man used generative AI to turn a woman's junior-high gym photo into nude images for a high-school student; man arrested, student referred","summary":"Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department arrested a 32-year-old company employee on 1 August 2026 and referred a 17-year-old high-school student to prosecutors, on suspicion of defamation and public display of child pornography. According to the police, on 11 February 2026 the two, acting together, used generative AI to turn a photo of a woman in her 40s, taken in her first year of junior high school in gym clothes, into two fake nude images, and posted them to a group on social media; the student had asked the man to make the edits. Police say the man is also suspected of posting similar edits of three women in their 20s, that neither suspect knew the women, and that about 3,800 obscene images and videos were found on his phone. The Yomiuri Shimbun, citing investigative sources, reports that police believe he made about 300 such images of women in athletics uniforms or gym clothes and posted about 100, about half at the student's request, and that he admitted the allegations.","incidentDate":"2026-02-11","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-08-03","aiSystem":"An unidentified generative AI tool that, according to the police, was used to turn real women's photos into fake nude images (tool not named in the reports read)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to Tokyo police, fake nude images made with generative AI from a woman's junior-high gym photo were posted to a social-media group, and the man is suspected of posting similar edits of three other women; police treat the posting as defamation.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":4,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"Four women: the woman in her 40s named in the joint arrest and referral allegation, and three women in their 20s whose edited images police suspect the man posted (Sankei). The Yomiuri's police-sourced figure of about 300 images of women is a count of images, not people, so further depicted women are unquantified. The suspects are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"JP","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"pending","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.sankei.com/article/20260803-4EUQRIBT4BMDDFNUEOPUJGFDLU/","primarySourceLabel":"Sankei Shimbun, 3 Aug 2026: man arrested and high-school student referred over AI nude edits of a woman's junior-high gym photo","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-21T03:19:40.889807+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-21T03:19:40.889807+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["sexual_deepfake","generative_ai","arrest","japan"]}]}