Description: In the lead-up to Korea's parliamentary elections, at least 129 deepfake videos and images were reported to have been detected, violating new election laws. These AI-generated deepfakes were used to mislead and manipulate public opinion, prompting a crackdown by the National Election Commission.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown political operatives and Unknown political groups developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Yoon Suk-yeol , Korean voters , Journalism , Electoral integrity and Democracy.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
673
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2024-02-19
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
koreatimes.co.kr · 2024
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With less than 50 days remaining until Korea's parliamentary elections in April, concerns over the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI)-generated deepfake videos and images are mounting, prompting heightened vigilance from election…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.
