{"id":8539,"date":"2024-08-29T17:16:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T17:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8539"},"modified":"2024-08-29T17:16:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T17:16:28","slug":"south-korea-faces-deepfake-porn-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8539","title":{"rendered":"South Korea faces deepfake porn &#8217;emergency&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cg4yerrg451o\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/03dd\/live\/8cde0b00-64f2-11ef-b43e-6916dcba5cbf.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The president has addressed the growing epidemic after Telegram users were found exchanging doctored photos of underage girls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8452\">Once again<\/a>, deepfake porn is in the news as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cg4yerrg451o\">South Korea faces deepfake porn &#8217;emergency&#8217;<\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em>Teenagers have been posting deepfake porn images of people they know, including minors, on sites like Telegram.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday instructed authorities to &#8220;thoroughly investigate and address these digital sex crimes to eradicate them&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This has gone beyond a rare case in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/feb\/29\/clothoff-deepfake-ai-pornography-app-names-linked-revealed\">Spain<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\/artificial-intelligence-nude-photos-students-winnipeg-no-charges-1.7115728\">Winnipeg<\/a>. In South Korea it has spread to hundreds of schools. Porn is proving to be a major use of AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president has addressed the growing epidemic after Telegram users were found exchanging doctored photos of underage girls. Once again, deepfake porn is in the news as South Korea faces deepfake porn &#8217;emergency&#8217;.\u00a0Teenagers have been posting deepfake porn images of people they know, including minors, on sites like Telegram. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8539\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">South Korea faces deepfake porn &#8217;emergency&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,27,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-media-and-news","category-visualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8540,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539\/revisions\/8540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}