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00:00South Korea's president has urged authorities to do more to eradicate the country's digital
00:05sex crime epidemic, amid a flood of deepfake pornography targeting young women.
00:11Authorities, journalists and social media users recently identified a large number of
00:16chat groups where members were creating and sharing sexually explicit, deepfake, images,
00:22including some of underage girls.
00:25Fakes are generated using artificial intelligence, and often combine the face of a real person
00:30with a fake body.
00:32South Korea's media regulator is holding an emergency meeting in the wake of the discoveries.
00:38South Korean President Yoon Suk-yol on Tuesday instructed authorities to thoroughly investigate
00:44and address these digital sex crimes to eradicate them.
00:47Recently, deepfake videos targeting an unspecified number of people have been circulating rapidly
00:53on social media, President Yoon said at a cabinet meeting.
00:58The victims are often minors and the perpetrators are mostly teenagers.
01:02The spate of chat groups, linked to individual schools and universities across the country,
01:07were discovered on the social media app Telegram over the past week.
01:12Users, mainly teenage students, would upload photos of people they knew, both classmates
01:18and teachers, and other users would then turn them into sexually explicit deepfake images.
01:24The discoveries follow the arrest of the Russian-born founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, on Saturday
01:30after it was alleged that child pornography, drug trafficking and fraud were taking place
01:35on the encrypted messaging app.