South Korea is fighting a deluge of non-consensual, explicit deepfake videos and images primarily targeting women online. Observers say most suspected perpetrators are teenage boys, many of whom target their female friends, relatives and others whom they know — also mostly minors — as a prank, out of curiosity or out of misogyny.
Citizens stage a rally against deepfake sex crime in Seoul, South Korea , Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. The banners read “You can’t insult us.” The National Assembly passes bills toughening the punishment for deepfake sex crimes in Seoul, South Korea , Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. Citizens stage a rally against deepfake sex crime in Seoul, South Korea , Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. The banners read “You can’t insult us.” Citizens stage a rally against deepfake sex crime in Seoul, South Korea , Friday, Sept.
Most suspected perpetrators in South Korea are teenage boys. Observers say the boys target female friends, relatives and acquaintances — also mostly minors — as a prank, out of curiosity or misogyny. The attacks raise serious questions about school programs but also threaten to worsen an already troubled divide between men and women.
Recent attention to the problem has coincided with France’s arrest in August of Pavel Durov, the founder of the messaging app Telegram, over allegations that his platform was used for illicit activities including the distribution of child sexual abuse. South Korea’s telecommunications and broadcast watchdog said Monday that Telegram has pledged to enforce a zero-tolerance policy on illegal deepfake content.
Police said they’ve detained five men for allegedly producing and spreading fake explicit contents of about 20 women, including her. The victims are all graduates from Seoul National University, the country’s top school. Two of the men, including one who allegedly sent her fake nude images in 2021, attended the same university, but she said has no meaningful memory of them.
Critics say authorities haven’t done enough to counter deepfake porn despite an epidemic of online sex crimes in recent years, such as spy cam videos of women in public toilets and other places. In 2020, members of a criminal ring were arrested and convicted of blackmailing dozens of women into filming sexually explicit videos for them to sell.
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