Two men arrested over deepfake pornography videos

Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department has arrested two men on defamation and other charges over distributing on the internet pornography videos they doctored so that the faces of actresses in the original videos were swapped with those of female celebrities, it was learned Friday. Takumi Hayashida, a 21-year-old university student in Kumamoto, and Takanobu Otsuki, a 47-year-old system engineer in Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, admitted to the charges, police sources said. The suspects used an artificial intelligence technology called deep learning to produce so-called deepfake pornography videos. The case is the first involving deepfake pornography videos handled by police in Japan. Otsuki told the police that he wanted to be praised by others, the sources said.