S. Korea police arrest man over AI image of runaway wolf that misled authorities
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_fw today at 10:10 AM
Are you trying to tell me, in this the year of our lord 2026, somebody has been (rightfully or wrongfully) arrested for literally âcrying wolfâ?
Thereâs something hilariously poetic about a ~2,500 year old fable being relevant today, because of AI.
kqp today at 10:53 AM
It sounds like he didnât actually file a false police report. They donât even say they asked him whether itâs true. It seems the police just read a post by a random person on the internet, assumed itâs true, then arrested him when it wasnât. The article is devastatingly light on info, though, so I canât be sure.
sigmoid10 today at 10:23 AM
Title should be "Man arrested for deceptive and antisocial behavior".
The only reason you are seeing this right now is because it has AI in the title.
bblb today at 11:28 AM
How about not believing everything that's posted to the Internet. This could've easily been done with Photoshop in the pre AI era.
rm30 today at 12:21 PM
The BBC article doesn't specify the text with the image, but I clearly see a procedural gap in the police department. Accusing a man who only posted a photo, reorganizing the search based on an unverified photo, it's a big failure.
Did Orwell teach anything? What will they do with the next Visitors' spaceship photo?
pluc today at 11:15 AM
Get used to it, it's gonna keep happening since we're dumb enough to create a technology that mirrors reality with no safeguards whatsoever.
prmoustache today at 10:11 AM
> Neukgu is part of a programme at O-World to restore the Korean wolf, which once roamed the Korean Peninsula but is now considered extinct in the wild.
I don't understand, shouldn't they have let him go if the idea is that they still roam in the wild? Why forcing it back to a zoo?
christoff12 today at 10:18 AM
I'm a little surprised zoo animals aren't chipped with some kind of beacon locator for incidents such as these.
bhanuhai2 today at 1:44 PM
Solid
stingraycharles today at 11:00 AM
South Korea has some very specific (and unusually harsh) laws around deepfakes. I was under the impression that it was only about impersonating people, but apparently itâs broader.
antiloper today at 11:12 AM
Need this in the west as well
jonnonz today at 10:52 AM
This is how the future will look!
sammy2255 today at 11:32 AM
What is the charge?
Gigachad today at 10:47 AM
IMO you should be legally required to disclose that a video has been AI generated when you share it.
Aegis_Labs today at 1:08 PM
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junaru today at 9:55 AM
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heddycrow today at 11:42 AM
It is, quite frankly, completely wrong that this man was arrestedâif anything, by this line of reasoning, it should have been an artist insteadâsince AI, as we are told, merely makes copies of what hard-working human artists have already created and shared on the internet.
AI is plagiarismâfull stopânothing more, nothing less.
Of course, this point could have been made without sarcasm (and AI tells for parody)âIâm awareâbut that would remove a certain⊠texture from the argument. And where, exactly, is the fun in that?