S. Korea Seeks to Clamp Down on Surge in Deepfake Crimes l KBS WORLD

Anchor: The South Korean authorities is in search of to plan methods to clamp down on an alarming surge in deepfake crimes involving each victims and perpetrators who’re underage. New information finds that the nation’s youngsters had been extra uncovered to the hazard of digital intercourse crimes utilizing deepfake expertise even earlier than the current uptick in associated crimes.
Our Bae Joo-yon has extra. 

Report: Schooling minister Lee Ju-ho on Friday sat down for talks with principals of a number of elementary, center and excessive faculties amid rising issues over such crimes involving deepfake expertise.

Lee stated the training ministry will arrange an emergency activity pressure to research and deal with deepfake crimes in faculties in addition to to offer psychological help to victims and strengthen preventive training campaigns.

This comes amid an alarming report that reveals six out of ten victims in deepfake intercourse crimes prior to now three years had been minors.  

In response to information submitted by the Korean Nationwide Police Company(KNPA) to primary opposition Democratic Get together(DP) lawmaker Yang Bu-nam on Friday, 59-point-eight p.c of people that fell sufferer to deepfake porn movies between 2021 and 2023 had been of their teenagers.

The information additionally discovered that teen victims of deepfake porn movies climbed three-point-four occasions from 2021 to 2023.

The variety of teenage suspects charged with creating such illicit content material additionally jumped from 65-point-four p.c in 2021 to 75-point-eight p.c in 2023. The determine from January to July this yr stood at 73-point-six p.c.

In the meantime, the federal government determined throughout a gathering on tackling deepfake crimes on Friday to pursue the enactment of a legislation that penalizes the possession, buy and watching of deepfake and different falsified and fabricated movies.

The federal government additionally plans to hunt revisions to associated legal guidelines to slap heavier punishment on the manufacturing and distribution of deepfake supplies earlier than devising by October a complete set of measures to sort out associated crimes. 

Bae Joo-yon, KBS World Radio Information.