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Research2026-07-29

MIT Sloan Management Review published research by Siddharth Bhattacharya (George Mason University), Yun Young Hur (Sungkyunkwan University) and Gal Oestreicher-Singer (Tel Aviv University) reporting a statistically significant association between engagement with AI-generated adult content and increases in reported rapes in Japan. The authors analyzed monthly crime statistics published by Japan's National Police Agency from January 2022 to October 2024, treating the mid-2023 Japanese launch of the ChatGPT mobile app — plus a July 2023 Stable Diffusion update that eased high-quality image generation — as an external shock reducing access frictions in a market where 72.9% of internet users went online via smartphone in 2023. The working paper is posted on SSRN. The authors frame the findings as reputational and legal risk for companies that host or enable such content, citing OpenAI's since-sidelined plan for an "adult mode" in ChatGPT.

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