South Korean man jailed for just two years for generating, distributing AI-generated child abuse porn

A court in South Korea has jailed a man just for two years for creating and distributing AI-generated child abuse videos. This was the first time that South Korea has punished someone for deepfakes, although people are livid at the meagre quantum of the sentence As the legal landscape begins to grapple with the darker aspects of generative artificial intelligence, a South Korean judge has made history by delivering a sentence related to AI-generated child abuse images for the first time in the country. Although this ruling marks South Korea’s first encounter with AI-generated explicit imagery, which was previously often referred to as “deepfakes,” the country has not been immune to controversies surrounding this rapidly evolving technology. According to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, at the start of 2021, hundreds of thousands of people signed an anonymously written petition urging the South Korean government to enforce stricter penalties for websites posting deepfake pornography featuring celebrities, including some who were underage.