DeepfakeHigh
South Korea Reportedly Experienced a Surge of Explicit Deepfake Pornography
- Occurred
- Aug 28, 2024
- Published
- Sep 12, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
At the end of August 2024, South Korean authorities reportedly 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.
Developers
- Synthetic media generation technology developers
- Deepfake technology developers
Deployers
- Synthetic media creators
- Deepfake creators
Harmed parties
- Women and girls
- Women
- Victims of non-consensual deepfakes
- Victims of deepfake abuse
- Privacy
- General public of South Korea
- General public
- Epistemic integrity
Tags
- South Korea
- Deepfake
- Porn
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves non-consensual deepfake pornography, a clear deepfake technology misuse with significant legal and social harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8