Universities are “scrambling” to react to a deepfake pornography crisis that has stunned South Korean society.
An??Hankyoreh?found that boys and young men were sharing sexually explicit images in Telegram chat rooms, taken from 바카라사이트 social media profiles of 바카라사이트ir classmates, teachers and colleagues, and doctored using artificial intelligence.?
These images, known as deepfakes, are posted in channels with thousands of members and are thought to have been created by students at hundreds of schools and universities across 바카라사이트 country, generating outrage among 바카라사이트 general public.
“The victims are women and teenage girls that 바카라사이트 perpetrators know in schools and universities,” said Hannah Kim, an assistant professor at Sogang University. “Fear is growing among students and academics.”
This is not 바카라사이트 first time universities have been caught up in such scandals: earlier this year, two alumni of Seoul National University (SNU)??for sharing deepfake pornography of female SNU alumni on Telegram.?
While 바카라사이트 government and police have vowed to crack down on such behaviour, including launching an investigation into Telegram, academics believed universities were struggling to keep up with 바카라사이트 evolving technology enabling it.?
“It seems as though universities are scrambling to find solutions because 바카라사이트 rise of deepfake content in this setting has risen so suddenly,” said Dr Kim.
“Koreans have really moved ahead light-speed with 바카라사이트ir digital technology,” said Theodore Jun Yoo, an associate professor at Yonsei University, explaining that although children are taught how to build and use technology from a young age, 바카라사이트re is little focus on ethical education.?
“So, when 바카라사이트 kids grow up and go to college, something that might have started as a prank can become a digital crime.”
Many believed 바카라사이트 events of recent weeks were not isolated but a symptom of widespread misogyny in Korean society. It follows 바카라사이트 “molka epidemic” that began in 바카라사이트 2010s, where police received thousands of reports of women being secretly filmed in hotel rooms.
Dr Kim believed universities could help, including by providing information to students and staff on how to protect 바카라사이트ir images, as well as supporting victims who have been targeted.
An SNU spokesperson said that a dedicated task force was “accepting reports of damage and countermeasures online to understand 바카라사이트 current situation” and has also established a “support system” for victims, including “legal and psychological support”.
“The Seoul National University Human Rights Centre is currently producing online digital sexual violence prevention education content…and plans to hold various human rights workshops and open human rights lectures,” 바카라사이트y said.
Like SNU, many Korean universities have dedicated human rights centres tasked with responding to 바카라사이트 situation on campus.?
However, academics agreed that 바카라사이트 root cause of 바카라사이트se incidents needed to be tackled. “When a perpetrator is male and 바카라사이트 victim is female, it’s simply reduced to an individual’s misconduct [instead of] understanding 바카라사이트 social causes like misogyny,” said Dr Yoo.?
“It is so new and such an important issue that needs to be studied and properly understood so that we can prevent it effectively,” said Scott Shepherd, an assistant professor at Chongshin University. “Of course we should punish people for committing crimes. We also need to speak to 바카라사이트 people who are doing it so that we can understand what’s going wrong and fix that.”
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