South Korea-Misogyny Has a New Weapon: Deepfake Sex Videos
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Date: September 20, 2024
South Korea – Misogyny Has a New Weapon: Deepfake Sex Videos
Men in chat rooms have been victimizing women they know by putting their faces on pornographic clips. Some Korean women say the only thing new about it is the technology.
By Choe Sang-Hun – Reporting from Seoul
Septeber 12, 2024 – In 2020, as the South Korean authorities were pursuing a blackmail ring that forced young women to make sexually explicit videos for paying viewers, they found something else floating through the dark recesses of social media: pornographic images with other people’s faces crudely attached.
They didn’t know what to do with these early attempts at deepfake pornography. In the end, the National Assembly enacted a vaguely worded law against those making and distributing it. But that did not prevent a crime wave, using A.I. technology, that has now taken the country’s misogynistic online culture to new depths.
In the past two weeks, South Koreans have been shocked to find that a rising number of young men and teenage boys had taken hundreds of social media images of classmates, teachers and military colleagues — almost all young women and girls, including minors — and used them to create sexually exploitative images and video clips with deepfake apps.
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