The National Police Agency plans to warn against the obscene use of AI at delinquency-prevention lectures at schools and other events. More than half of cases reported to Japanese police of explicit deepfakes targeting those aged under 18 were created with the involvement of students from the same schools as the victims, National Police Agency data have shown. This is the first time that the NPA has released information on minors who became victims of obscene fake images created using generative artificial intelligence and other technologies. The agency plans to create flyers and warn against such use of AI at delinquency-prevention lectures at schools and other locations. According to the NPA, police were consulted over 79 cases of deepfakes targeting those up to the age of 17 from January to September this year.

Japanese police said Thursday they will introduce artificial intelligence technology to identify social media posts through which people are recruited to commit crimes like robbery and fraud. Starting Friday, the National Police Agency will use AI to look for posts promising large payments for yami baito, an expression implying shadowy illegal work, coupled with wordings that solicit people to conduct other more specific criminal acts such as transporting or receiving money obtained via fraudulent means. The concept of yami baito grabbed headlines in Japan recently after a group of Japanese men, arrested earlier this year for running scams from the Philippines, was alleged to have recruited individuals via social media to carry out a series of robberies across Japan, with at least one resulting in a murder.