Chu Yu-chen (朱玉宸), 26, aka 'Xiaoyu', and his assistant, Chuang Hsin-jui (莊炘睿), were arrested for creating, selling and distributing over 100 porn videos of Taiwanese celebrities and politicians. 

According to Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau, the three made over NTD 13 million in a past year by superimposing peoples' faces without their consent on to existing pornographic videos using deepfake technology.

In addition to selling deepfakes of public figures on a series of Telegram groups, Chu is said to have accepted commissions to make deepfake videos of lesser-known individuals as a form of 'revenge porn.'

Kaohsiung City Councilor Huang Jie (黃捷), one of the people whose faces were used in the videos without their consent, told the Taipei Times that she "felt disgusted and afraid when she saw the videos herself, and indicated that the videos had caused real harm and humiliation to the victims."