Description: South Korean police alleged that a 40-year-old man used ChatGPT's image-generation capabilities to add escaped wolf Neukgu to a Daejeon street photo, then posted the purportedly fabricated image in a company group chat. Authorities reportedly used the image in alerts and briefings, redirecting search resources and disrupting public-safety operations before police identified him through CCTV and AI-use records.
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View all entitiesAlleged: OpenAI developed an AI system deployed by Unnamed 40-year-old man arrested by Daejeon police, which harmed General public , General public of South Korea , Emergency services , Epistemic integrity , Daejeon Metropolitan City , Daejeon Metropolitan Police Agency , Daejeon Fire Headquarters , General public of Daejeon and Neukgu.
Alleged implicated AI systems: ChatGPT , ChatGPT image generation and Unknown image generator technology
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1484
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2026-04-08
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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South Korean police have arrested a man for sharing an AI-generated image that misled authorities who were searching for a wolf that had broken out of a zoo in Daejeon city.
The 40-year-old unnamed man is accused of disrupting the search by…
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