South Korea has been rocked by a wave of sexually explicit deepfake images being created and shared online, indiscriminately targeting women and girls using their school photos, social media selfies and even military headshots.
A Telegram channel with more than 220,000 participants was reportedly being used to create and share these pornographic images generated by artificial intelligence (AI), serving as a global reminder of the darker consequences from the widespread rush for this technology.
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