Measures such as 'Suspension from Attendance' Followed by Second Semester Return to School
Victim Says "It's Creepy... Please Separate Me from the Perpetrator"
Students who were punished for using ‘deepfake’ technology to create pornographic images by combining the faces of classmates and teachers and distributing them on social media (SNS) are reportedly returning to school, causing distress among the victims.
A (50), the guardian of a middle school daughter suffering from the distribution of pornographic photos made with deepfake technology, told Yonhap News on the 2nd, “Although punishment was carried out, I heard that five perpetrators will return in the second semester,” expressing anxiety, “My daughter is very anxious after hearing this news.”
Earlier, on the 28th of last month, the Jeonbuk Provincial Police Agency referred seven male students attending a middle school in Jeonju to the prosecution and juvenile division on charges of violating the Special Act on the Punishment of Sexual Crimes.
They are accused of using deepfake technology in March to combine photos of 12 female students and two female teachers from the same school with nude photos of other women and distributing them on SNS and other platforms. It is impossible to estimate how many undisclosed victims there may be.
The school held a School Violence Countermeasure Committee meeting and ordered two students to be forcibly transferred, while five others received measures such as suspension or community service. One of the forcibly transferred students filed a legal challenge against the disciplinary action, and all five perpetrators will attend school in the second semester.
According to A, the school is not very large, so rumors spread quickly, and the victims had to suffer from shock and anxiety. A said, “My daughter says she gets chills knowing she has to live in the same space as the perpetrators again,” raising her voice, “Deepfake crimes violate the dignity of the victims and are tantamount to socially and mentally killing them.”
Meanwhile, in the Jeonbuk region, a series of cases involving the production and distribution of illegal synthetic materials using ‘deepfake’ technology among teenagers has prompted the police to conduct strict investigations. The Jeonbuk Provincial Police Agency Cyber Crime Investigation Unit announced on the 2nd that it is currently investigating 13 cases related to illegal pornographic synthetic materials created by teenagers using deepfake technology.
The police believe that teenagers learned the methods of the crime while searching for deepfake technology online. As these deepfake abuse crimes continue to occur within schools, the police are conducting investigations using digital forensics on mobile phones and are taking measures to delete and block illegal videos distributed on SNS.
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