Your personal information and photos have been exposed.” Now let’s talk.
The university student saw a picture of herself that was taken when she was still a student a few years ago when she entered the chatroom to read the message. The identical photo was used in the next image, but it was a phony and sexually graphic one.
Heejin, not her real name, was terrified and did not reply, but the pictures did not stop. Her face had been connected via advanced deepfake technology to a body performing a sexual act in each of them.
Most deepfakes are made out of a genuine person’s face combined with a fictitious, sexually explicit body.
Heejin told the reporters, “I felt very alone and terrified.
However, she wasn’t alone.
Journalist Ko Narin from South Korea broke what would become the biggest scoop of her career two days earlier. Police were looking into deepfake porn rings at two of the county’s biggest institutions; it had recently come to light, and Ms. Ko was certain there had to be more.
