Police officer indicted for fabricating, distributing deepfake videos of acquaintances
A police officer in Seoul has been indicted for using artificial intelligence (AI) to create and spread deepfake videos of people he knew, prosecutors said Wednesday. The Busan District Prosecutors Office said the officer, stationed at Seoul's Dongdaemun Police Station, manufactured roughly 400 such videos and distributed about 50 of them between March 2022 and August this year. He was earlier…
A police officer in Seoul has been indicted for fabricating and distributing deepfake videos of acquaintances, according to prosecutors. The Busan District Prosecutors Office stated that the officer, who was stationed at Seoul's Dongdaemun Police Station, created around 400 such videos and disseminated approximately 50 of them between March 2022 and August 2025.
He was initially arrested and held by investigators from the Busan Metropolitan Police Agency, following a month-long undercover investigation that began in December 2022 to examine suspicions of illegal, exploitative videos being circulated via Telegram. The officer had previously been investigated for a similar offense before joining the police force, but the prosecution decided not to indict him at that time.
In addition to the deepfake videos, the officer was charged with possessing approximately 5,600 illegally filmed videos, including around 1,600 that involve child abuse, as well as producing about 10 illegally filmed videos using his mobile phone.
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