DeepfakeHigh
Police Officer in Seoul, South Korea, Alleged to Have Created and Shared Sexually Explicit Deepfakes of Acquaintances
- Occurred
- Mar 13, 2022
- Published
- Oct 4, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- Synthetic video generation technology developers
- Synthetic media generation technology developers
- Synthetic image generation technology developers
- Deepfake technology developers
Deployers
- Synthetic media creators
- Law enforcement
- Dongdaemun police officer accused of creating sexually explicit deepfakes
- Deepfake creators in South Korea
- Deepfake creators
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
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Police officer arrested for using AI to create sexual exploitation content and sharing fake videos.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8