Shota Suito, 35, a former elementary school teacher, was sentenced by the Nagoya District Court on Thursday for possessing naked images of girls created by generative artificial intelligence, in violation of the law against child prostitution and pornography.
The sentence marked the first case in Japan in which the law has been applied to the possession of AI-generated sexual deepfakes.
Public prosecutors had demanded a six-year prison sentence for Suito.
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