For those not familiar with the genre, Japanese porn is allowed to contain the most graphic violence, misogyny and outright weirdness provided that everyone’s bits are pixelated.

Masayuki Nakamoto, who runs his own website in the southern prefecture of Hyogo, lifted images of porn stars from Japanese adult videos and doctored them with the same method used to create realistic face swaps in deepfake videos.

But instead of changing faces, Nakamoto used machine learning software to reconstruct genitalia.

Nakamoto reportedly made about $96,000 by selling over 10,000 manipulated videos, though he was arrested specifically for selling 10 fake photos at about $20 a pop.

Nakamoto pleaded guilty to charges of copyright violation and displaying obscene images and said he did it for money, according to NHK.

What is odd is that there's no law criminalising the use of AI to make such images. Nakamoto was done for violating the privacy of the actors in the videos which is a little odd considering that the were paid to do what they were doing and made no official complaint.