Authorities, journalists, and social media users have recently discovered a plethora of chat rooms where participants were producing and disseminating “deepfake” photographs that were sexually explicit and featured some minor girls.
Artificial intelligence is used to create deepfakes, which frequently blend a real person’s face with a phony body.
In light of the findings, the media regulator in South Korea is calling an urgent meeting.
Victims that are underage
President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea gave the go-ahead for officials to “thoroughly investigate and address these digital sex crimes to eradicate them” on Tuesday.
Deepfake movies that target an arbitrary number of people have been making the rounds lately.
Teenagers make up the majority of the offenders, while the victims are frequently children.”
Over the past week, a wave of chat groups on the social media app Telegram was found. These groups were connected to certain colleges and universities around the nation.
Users, most of whom were teenagers, would upload pictures of friends, classmates, and teachers, and other users would edit them into obscenely graphic deepfakes.
The findings come after Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, who was born in Russia, was detained on Saturday as part of an investigation.
