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The story
A free service that can swap faces onto adult video (AV) footage using just one photo of someone else is spreading online, boasting “over 300,000 cumulative users.” A lawyer points out that “currently there’s no law to crack down on this,” but on the forum thread, people debated legal interpretations like “wouldn’t this count as distribution of obscene material?” alongside others hunting for loopholes such as “it’s safe as long as you don’t publish it.”
There are even fears that AV videos could be generated without permission from old graduation album photos… (photo is an illustration) [Photo: PhotoAC]
A service that applies AI technology to generate AV videos from other people’s photos without permission is causing ripples online. Using AI face-swapping, the service lets users replace the face of an AV performer with that of any third party, and even offers a free plan. Its official site advertises “over 300,000 cumulative users” and emphasizes that it is a “reassuring, law-compliant service” offering “content that complies with regulations.” So how does this hold up legally? We asked for the view of attorney Kazuma Higuchi of Higuchi International Law Office, who is qualified to practice in both Japan and New York State.
[Photo] The group hints at legal action… an idol victimized by AI-doctored images
Source: encount.press / Original article here
What people said
Doesn't it feel hollow?
Just help him out so he doesn't have to resort to this.
Women really are heartless.
If men ever lost their sex drive, humanity would go extinct.
You should be thanking them, honestly.
Lecture him during his post-nut clarity (the sudden regret guys feel right after finishing).
she can't compete with the destructive power of a classmate or coworker.
Well, some idols are pitched to the level of guys who can't get girlfriends,
so they're not even that cute anyway.
Even knowing it's fake, there's probably still some emptiness to it.
I mean, realistically, the girl you like is out there sleeping with someone else anyway.
"Yaoi" works using real people have been around forever.
I guess AI just lets you turn them into actual videos now.
For now, let's set the password to "today's 8" (an old anonymous-forum in-joke for a shared daily password).
"Today's 8" — that's nostalgic.
Bet a lot of people these days have no idea what that even means.
Merge it with Ayaya (nickname for pop idol Ayumi Hamasaki, referencing an old meme).
Even if they call it free, if they're taking requests from an unspecified number of people and making these,
I doubt that'd be judged as falling within personal use.
Well… lol
Everything below the face is a different person anyway lololol.
It's so realistic you could practically step into an ero-manga's world.
"Shousetsuka ni Narou" is already overrun with AI-generated works as we speak…
and the AI keeps getting a little better each time lol.
Embarrass the police and they'll
throw everything at you.
As long as you don't publish it, you're safe (^o^)
Then what's that bulge in your pants, huh?
If the quality's good enough, people turn into validation-craving monsters.
So that means the lawyer's the one lying.
Obviously the AI users know the law better.
Publishing it is a no-go lol,
but you're just handing over source material and getting a custom order made lololol.
So you'd swap in Yoshimura Taku's face for your own and lick the actress all over? (Yoshimura Taku is a well-known Japanese AV director/performer)
there are probably guys into mature women out there too.
Go look in a mirror lol.
Don't flatter yourself, lady.
Sounds like the type who watches mobile games and anime and complains about being "sexually exploited."
With mature women, it's faster to just seduce them directly and sleep with them.
Background and Key Points
“Turn Your Crush Into a Porn Star” isn’t the first face-swap deepfake tool to hit Japan, but the “300,000 users” figure and the explicit framing around AV (adult video, Japan’s mainstream commercial porn industry) mark a shift from novelty apps to purpose-built abuse tools. Japan currently has no dedicated deepfake law. The relevant statutes are scattered: the Act on Punishment of Activities Relating to Child Pornography doesn’t apply to adult subjects, obscenity is covered by Article 175 of the Penal Code (distribution of obscene material), and defamation or right-of-publicity claims require the victim to sue civilly, often after the fact. Attorney Higuchi’s comment that “no law can stop it” reflects this gap: creation for private use isn’t criminalized at all, and even distribution is legally ambiguous when the images are AI-generated composites rather than real footage of the victim.
The thread doesn’t split on whether this is bad — almost no one defends the service outright. It splits on where the line sits between “personal use” and “distribution.” Posters floated the idea that commissioning a custom video from someone else, even without publishing it, might already cross into circulating obscene material because the request itself involves an unspecified third party handling the images (post 57). Others insisted privately-generated, unshared content is untouchable (post 54), effectively betting on enforcement gaps rather than legality.
What the thread never addresses is scale: the “300,000 users” number is a marketing claim from the service itself, unverified by any outside source, and the article doesn’t say whether the site operates from Japan or abroad — which matters enormously, since Japanese police have no jurisdiction to compel takedowns from an overseas host, regardless of what Article 175 says.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (News Speed+) thread “[Society] “Turn Your Crush Into an AV Star” — Sexual Videos AI-Generated From a Single Photo… Free Service Spreads, Lawyer Says “Currently No Law to Crack Down On It”.”
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