Estimated studying time: 3 minutes.

An advert at my native Busan subway station, which I’d by no means given a second thought to till at the moment. I had no cause to—with a title and picture like that, I’d assumed it was for some type of magnificence app or filter.

Then my ageing eyes lastly observed the “딥페이크/Deepfake,” and I did a double-take:

It reads:

당신의 얼굴 괜찮습니까?

딥페이크로 인한 성 범죄가 매년 증가하고 있습니다. 성폭력처벌법 제14조의 2에 의거해 타인의 얼굴이나 신체 등을 허위 영상물로 만들거나 배포하면 5년 이하 징역 또는 5천만 원 인하의 벌금에 처하게 됩니다.

Is Your Face Okay?

Intercourse crimes brought on by deepfakes are rising yearly. Pursuant to Article 14-2 of the Sexual Violence Punishment Act, anybody who creates or distributes a false video of one other individual’s face or physique is topic to imprisonment for as much as 5 years or a nice of as much as 50 million gained.

This textual content, a bland rehashing of the legislation, looks like an actual missed alternative.

The difficulty is who this advert is aimed toward. The “Is Your Face Okay?” headline appears aimed addressed to victims, and certainly a Korean pal assures me that it’s. Nevertheless, certainly most victims aren’t unaware that deepfakes are unlawful? Absolutely, extra of a priority would seemingly be emotions of embarrassment, disgrace, that they themselves have been in charge for them indirectly, and/or worries concerning the affect on their jobs and livelihoods? So, the precedence ought to be giving victims assurances that these are by no means the case, and that they may obtain all the assistance, assist, lack of judgement, and authorized assist they wanted on the Middle.

Of their absence, a extra artistic different is that the headline is a double entendre meant to imply “Aren’t You Pink-faced/Ashamed?” to potential perpetrators, then letting them know what may occur in the event that they get caught.

Which applies? Sadly, there’s no additional details about it on the Busan Gender-based Violence Prevention Middle’s web site, nor does Googling/Navering yield any outcomes.

So, with out disputing the Middle’s good intentions for a second, once more I’m compelled to defer to my pal’s judgement. By which case, I believe the poster actually misses the mark.

What do you assume?

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