AI is fuelling a deepfake porn crisis in South Korea. What’s behind it – and how can it be fixed?
- Written by Sungshin (Luna) Bae, PhD student, Gender Equality Policy Special Public Officer at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in South Korea, Monash University
It’s difficult to talk about artificial intelligence without talking about deepfake porn – a harmful AI byproduct that has been used to target everyone from Taylor Swift to Australian school girls.
But a recent report from startup Security Heroes found that out of 95,820 deepfake porn videos analysed from different sources, 53% featured...





