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South Korea set to criminalize possessing or watching sexually explicit deepfake videos
South Korea is poised to criminalize possessing or looking at sexually explicit AI-manipulated deepfake photos or video.
There's been public outrage in South Korea in recent years over the exchange of sexually explicit AI-manipulated images and deepfakes, and last month authorities launched an investigation into such content allegedly being shared via chat rooms on the Telegram messaging app. An investigation by South Korean journalist Ko Narin for the country's Hankyoreh newspaper, published in August, found that the faces of several female graduates of Seoul National University had appeared on sexually explicit deepfake materials produced and distributed by men with whom they'd studied. As CBS News reported, deepfake explicit images of pop icon Taylor Swift spread quickly on Elon Musk's social media platform X early this year, drawing millions of views and prompting X (formerly Twitter) to temporarily block searches for the entertainer in January.
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