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South Korea Experiences a Surge of Explicit Deepfake Pornography

August 28, 2024

At the end of August 2024, South Korean authorities 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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Alleged developer
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Alleged harmed parties
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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/777

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