South Korea’s Nationwide Police Company (KNPA) introduced on Monday that they have been investigating the encrypted messaging app Telegram. They believe the platform of “abetting” the distribution of AI-generated pornography, additionally referred to as deepfake porn, together with photographs of youngsters.
Deepfake pornography entails superimposing the face of an actual individual on an AI-created physique. Final month, a South Korean broadcaster ran a narrative exposing a Telegram chatroom run by college college students sharing deepfake pornographic materials of feminine classmates.
This was only one a number of high-profile instances within the nation that has brought about public outrage.
“In gentle of those crimes, the Seoul Nationwide Police Company launched their probe final week… for abetting the crimes,” KNPA investigations chief Woo Jong-soo advised reporters.
“Telegram has been non-responsive to our earlier requests for account data throughout investigations of earlier Telegram-linked crimes,” he added.
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Woo mentioned that police have obtained 88 complaints about deepfake pornography and have recognized 24 suspects. Digital intercourse crimes have turn out to be a significant concern in South Korea, together with the usage of spycams and revenge porn.
President Yoon Suk Yeol, a former prosecutor, has pledged to “eradicate” this sort of crime.
Telegram founder and chief Pavel Durov was arrested in France in August. The Russian-born Dubai-based entrepreneur is being held over allegations of permitting criminality to unfold on the platform.
Woo mentioned that South Korean police can be working along with French counterparts on the case.