Incident #1735
Police Officer in Seoul, South Korea, Alleged to Have Created and Shared Sexually Explicit Deepfakes of Acquaintances
Description
A police officer at Dongdaemun Police Station in Seoul, South Korea, was accused of using an AI app to create roughly 400 sexually explicit deepfake videos from acquaintances' photographs and sharing about 50 through Telegram. He was also charged with possessing about 1,600 child sexual abuse videos. Reporting does not establish whether that material was AI-generated. He was indicted following an undercover police investigation.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- synthetic-media-creators
- law-enforcement
- dongdaemun-police-officer-accused-of-creating-sexually-explicit-deepfakes
- deepfake-creators-in-south-korea
- deepfake-creators
Alleged Developers
- synthetic-video-generation-technology-developers
- synthetic-media-generation-technology-developers
- synthetic-image-generation-technology-developers
- deepfake-technology-developers
Harmed Parties
- victims-of-non-consensual-deepfakes
- privacy
- individuals-depicted-in-deepfake-porn
- epistemic-integrity
- acquaintances-depicted-in-the-dongdaemun-police-officer's-alleged-sexual-deepfakes