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South Korean Man Might Get Prison Time for Posting AI Wolf Picture

Gizmodo·Mike Pearl·about 1 month ago
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Have you ever been fooled by Hurricane Shark, the 14-year-old photoshopped image appearing to show a shark submerged below the waterline on a flooded freeway, and usually posted during hurricanes by some attention-starved person on social media? Well what if the shark were a wolf? And what if it were made with AI rather than photoshop? And what if the person who confessed to doing it were facing hard time in the slammer? As you may have guessed, that wolf thing wasn’t actually a hypothetical. According to Agence France-Presse (via the Straits Times in this case ) some guy in his 40s in South Korea confessed to doing it “just for fun.” But according to a story in Yahoo News , the charges he’s now facing carry a possible sentence of five years in prison and a fine equivalent to $6,700—honestly a pretty chill fine to accompany a five-year prison sentence.…

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