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South Korea Reportedly Experienced a Surge of Explicit Deepfake Pornography

AI Incident Database · article · Aug 28, 2024 · UTC

At the end of August 2024, South Korean authorities reportedly began investigating a significant surge in the creation and dissemination, often via Telegram, of explicit deepfake pornography created without consent from the stolen social media content of female classmates, teachers, and neighbors.

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incident-report
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reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2024-08-28T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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