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In dark corners of the internet, depraved content creators are sharing pornographic pictures and videos made with artificial intelligence to make money – and humiliate their loved ones.
Four years after police concluded a massive bust of depraved content creators in South Korea, deepfake technology brings a sinister new dimension to channels, with hundreds of thousands of people signed up to view digitally altered pictures of women and children.
Despite efforts to crack down on distributors of illegal porn online, users also continue to share photos and videos of strangers, family members and schoolchildren candid and unaware, drugged or sleep, in compromising positions.
Investigations to infiltrate and take down these rooms have uncovered horrifying hazing rituals, with young people even sharing indecent images of their own family members to gain access.
South Korea is battling an online scourge that continues to grow in spite of lengthy sentences and high-profile …