South Korea Criminalizes Watching Or Possessing Sexually Explicit Deepfakes (reuters.com) 36
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: South Korean lawmakers on Thursday passed a bill that criminalizes possessing or watching sexually explicit deepfake images and videos, with penalties set to include prison terms and fines. There has been an outcry in South Korea over Telegram group chats where sexually explicit and illegal deepfakes were created and widely shared, prompting calls for tougher punishment. Anyone purchasing, saving or watching such material could face up to three years in jail or be fined up to 30 million won ($22,600), according to the bill.
Currently, making sexually explicit deepfakes with the intention of distributing them is punishable by five years in prison or a fine of 50 million won under the Sexual Violence Prevention and Victims Protection Act. When the new law takes effect, the maximum sentence for such crimes will also increase to seven years regardless of the intention. The bill will now need the approval of President Yoon Suk Yeol in order to be enacted. South Korean police have so far handled more than 800 deepfake sex crime cases this year, the Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday. That compares with 156 for all of 2021, when data was first collated. Most victims and perpetrators are teenagers, police say.
Currently, making sexually explicit deepfakes with the intention of distributing them is punishable by five years in prison or a fine of 50 million won under the Sexual Violence Prevention and Victims Protection Act. When the new law takes effect, the maximum sentence for such crimes will also increase to seven years regardless of the intention. The bill will now need the approval of President Yoon Suk Yeol in order to be enacted. South Korean police have so far handled more than 800 deepfake sex crime cases this year, the Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday. That compares with 156 for all of 2021, when data was first collated. Most victims and perpetrators are teenagers, police say.
I wonder... (Score:3)
If someone sends me an email with a sexual explicit deepfake and I open it, do I get sent to jail?
Fun Fact (Score:3)
Some governments consider viewing material on a computer the same as creating it, as you are generating files on your computer (web browser cache) therefore you are "creating" material.
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that should be something for the jury to deside.
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i don't use ai llm's so i don't know if this is a thing, could you email a link with appropriate parameters as part of the url to create an image from a llm?
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well pay me $250 or I rat you out
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Now all they need is a USB stick with some deepfake porn. If the cop himself gets busted with it he can always say it wa
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This was back maybe 12 years ago? 10?
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Generally how itâ(TM)s meant to work is that you ring up the police and tell them, and they prosecute the person who sent it. Of course, if you trust that process to work like that, then boy do I have a bridge to sell you.
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I wonder... (Score:2)
If I like watching p0rn, then how do I check that the p0rn I have is not deepfake? Will this law effectively ban p0rn in Korea?
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Thing is, pornography is already illegal in South Korea.
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_laws_by_region), these are the applicable 3 laws:
Article 243 (Distribution, etc. of Obscene Pictures)
Any person who distributes, sells, lends, openly displays or shows any obscene documents, drawing, pictures, films or other things, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or by a fine not exceeding five million won.[9]
Article 244 (Manufacture, etc. of Obscene Pictures)
A person who, for the purpose of accomplishing the acts as prescribed in Article 243, manufactures, possesses, imports or exports obscene goods, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or by a fine not exceeding five million won.[9]
Article 44-7 (Prohibition on Circulation of Unlawful Information)
No one may circulate any of the following information through an information and communications network: 1. Information with obscene content distributed, sold, rented, or displayed openly in the form of code, words, sound, images, or motion picture;[10]
And to help confirm my interpretation, I did a quick web search and found this list-a-cle "10 things you didn't know are illegal in Korea" and it lists pornography (tattoos really took me by surprise): https://10mag.com/illegal-in-korea/
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Tell that to the starving North Koreans.
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Watch a riot in Yongsan and the billy clubs in action, and the endless line of paddy wagon buses.
Starvation is presumed in the past. The beatings and repression are real.
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Freedom is relative and SK is relatively very free compared to NK.
But I will gladly agree that anti-pornography laws (where consenting adults are concerned) are an infringement of the rights of the population and that it is therefore authoritarian and immoral for government to restrict the production or distribution thereof, and that this falls into the category of "things that should not even be subject to a vote" because it's a matter of your basic and fundamental liberties: chiefly freedom of expression
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It takes an astonishing amount of idiocy and ignorance to say that. I applaud you, AC, I've met dead goldfish with more cognitive ability than you seem to possess.
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The dog meat thing in that area has been hard for me to get a fix on. It seems like a lot of people in the places where it happens consider it abhorrent but obviously not enough to stop it and of course it has it's fans who know their favorite food is in the crosshairs.
I dunno man I don't like it either but I hear pigs are such nice animals that I go out of my way to never interact with them alive. So am I any better?
The slikworm pupae thing is crazy though, can't say i loved every dish i've tried with th
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Korea is a funny place. There are hookers, but they are in brothels in certain places like Itaewon, a district in Seoul. There is no obvious porn. You'd think people were disinterested in sex, but Koreans tend to go for cheesecake shots of young women, and you see a lot of that on Korean tv.
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Wow. No wonder South Korea is dying out. (Score:2)
So any form of racy pictures is flat-out illegal in South Korea?!? ... Ok, that does explain a thing or two when it comes to abysmal birth-rates.
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You already get nailed for porn, as porn is illegal in ROK. This is simply "this kind of porn gets you this much punishment, whereas that kind of porn gets you that much". It's a qualitative difference in punishment depending on how offensive the material is.
possession (Score:3)
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Boy you gonna make some transhumanists mad.
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so just viewing pop up ads can = jail / prison tim (Score:2)
so just viewing pop up ads can = jail / prison time?
Also are allowed to hack / bypass DRM (install ad block) to not view ads?
Dangerous (Score:2)
We have to define AI and approaching things. We have to define fair use for AI.
Just like we can read a book and learn so should an AI be able to. Just like we can read something and draw an image representing it so should an AI be able to. Just like we can fantasize so should an AI be able to and generate images and sound from it. Are we going to allow government to outlaw certain thoughts? Our own thinking is related to what "AI" is doing.
A separate issue: So far no AI has risen to status of person. So no
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A whole new undergound industry is born (Score:2)
with the stoke of a politicians pen for some to get rich off.
drat my ginormous endowment (Score:2)
pretty soon mere possession of genetalia will be grounds for imprisonment
In that case, I am in a LOT of trouble.
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pretty soon mere possession of genetalia will be grounds for imprisonment
In that case, I am in a LOT of trouble.
Why? Whose have you collected?
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