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South Korean web sleuths fight AI deepfake porn

Kim Mi-Soon, head of the National Center for Digital Sexual Crime Response, browses through the agency’s internal website in Seoul. (Photo: AFP)

SEOUL - Under banners emblazoned “Solidarity” and “We stand together with victims”, a group of South Korean women digital detectives dredges the internet for a scourge of illegal AI-enabled pornography.

But the success story has a dark side: women suffer rampant “digital sex crimes”, rights groups say. Spycams film them in private while chat groups blackmail them for explicit content and share so-called “revenge porn” without consent.

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