South Korean Teenagers Detained Over Deepfake Sexual Images

[Ernst_Brenner]

"Under South Korean law, people convicted of making sexually explicit deepfakes with the intention to distribute them face punishments of ​up to five years in prison or a fine of up to 50 million won, or $37,000. "

[Ernst_Brenner]

Forgot citation. This was in the New York Times.

[Octavious]

Presumably sexually explicit deep fakes of real people? The crime being abusing someone's image rather than AI characters taking jobs from porn stars?

It raises a few interesting questions. The intent to distribute kind of implies that they consider making deep fakes for personal use acceptable... which feels wrong. Then you have the question of how closely does the fake have to resemble a real person to count? With 8 billion of us on the planet you'd imagine making an AI who doesn't at least have a passing resemblance to quite a lot of people would be rather tricky. If you were to give your AI creation different coloured eyes and a mole would that be far enough away from the copied person to be acceptable?

This sounds very much like one of those exciting new laws designed to provide lawyers more employment opportunities

[Jamiet99uk]

Shouldn't this be in the politics forum?