Incident 600: South Korean man used AI to create sexual images of children
Description: A South Korean man used AI technology to generate 360 images of a sexual nature depicting children in April of 2023. The police confiscated the images and the courts sentenced the man to two and a half years in prison. The case marked the first of its nature in the South Korean court system.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: unknown developed an AI system deployed by Unnamed South Korean man, which harmed General public.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
600
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2023-04-01
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
cnn.com · 2023
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A South Korean man has been sentenced to jail for using artificial intelligence to generate exploitative images of children, the first case of its kind in the country as courts around the world encounter the use of new technologies in creat…
Variants
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