A service that uses AI DeepFake to easily turn real people into nudes is earning hundreds of millions of yen

The technology that uses AI to replace the faces and bodies of people in videos and photos with those of other people is called 'DeepFake' and is misused to generate pornographic content and create politically inflammatory content. In particular, web services that generate pornographic content using DeepFake have a considerable number of users and are said to be generating revenue in the hundreds of millions of yen.

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When deepfake technology first emerged, only a small number of users were generating fake pornography on their own, but in recent years, several web services have emerged that allow users to post and monetize fake pornography, as well as web services that allow anyone to generate fake pornography with a simple user interface. These web services have a large number of users. For example, Mr.Deepfakes, which announced its closure in May 2025, had 58,123 videos uploaded to it between February 2018 and December 2024, and had been viewed a total of more than 2 billion times.

The Internet's largest deep fake porn site 'Mr.Deepfakes' is permanently closed - GIGAZINE

Indicator , an investigative journalism firm that covers digital fraud, recently conducted a study on 85 porn sites using deep fakes. The study found that these sites offer services such as nudity in exchange for paid tokens, and that 18 of the sites have made between $2.6 million and $18.4 million (JPY 380 million to JPY 2.7 billion) in the past six months. In addition, the study also found that the average number of visitors to each site reaches 18.5 million in six months.

The 10 most popular websites were analyzed to find out which countries were the most popular, followed by India, Mexico, Brazil, and Germany. These websites also use major Internet infrastructure such as AWS and Cloudflare, and 54 websites have Google's sign-in system. Google censors websites related to fraud and refuses to implement the sign-in system, but deepfake porn sites seem to have circumvented the censorship by using intermediate sites.

As the harm caused by deepfakes becomes a problem, many countries and regions are working to establish rules to regulate deepfakes. For example, the UK has declared it a crime to create and share sexually explicit deepfakes.

British government announces that creating and sharing sexually explicit 'deep fakes' will be a crime - GIGAZINE

Additionally, Denmark is in the process of amending its copyright laws to establish rights over its citizens' bodies, faces and voices.

Denmark announces it will amend its copyright law to give citizens the right to their own bodies, faces and voices to combat deep fakes - GIGAZINE