S. Korea police arrest man over AI image of runaway wolf that misled authorities
68 points by giuliomagnifico 2 hours ago | 26 comments
sigmoid10 36 minutes ago
Title should be "Man arrested for deceptive and antisocial behavior".
replyThe only reason you are seeing this right now is because it has AI in the title.
AussieWog93 14 minutes ago
Yes, it's an interesting and novel thing about a topic many people here are interested in.
replydarkwater 4 minutes ago
Yes, and at the same time we should ask the question: would the intersection between "people who think this is a funny thing to do" and "people with the technical capabilities to actually generate something that misleads police" [1] return a value > 0 before GenAI?
reply[1] waiting for some example where fool policemen where outsmarted with simple tricks /s
kqp 6 minutes ago
It sounds like he didn’t actually file a false police report. They don’t even say they asked him whether it’s true. It seems the police just read a post by a random person on the internet, assumed it’s true, then arrested him when it wasn’t. The article is devastatingly light on info, though, so I can’t be sure.
replychristoff12 41 minutes ago
I'm a little surprised zoo animals aren't chipped with some kind of beacon locator for incidents such as these.
replyprmoustache 48 minutes ago
> 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.
replyI 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?
spiffyk 42 minutes ago
Pretty sure if you let only a handful of individuals from an almost-extinct species roam around freely in an uncontrolled environment, chances are pretty high something is going to kill off them before they reproduce, hence why they are almost-extinct.
replyThe zoo provides a controlled environment needed to restore the species.
Gigachad 12 minutes ago
IMO you should be legally required to disclose that a video has been AI generated when you share it.
replyjunaru 2 hours ago
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replyconcinds 51 minutes ago
Antisocial behavior should face consequences. I'm not Asian and I don't understand your mindset.
replynubg 2 hours ago
Can you clarify what you mean by Asian mindset here? Trying to save face?
replydilawar 49 minutes ago
Not OP. Indian here. I find [1] to be a perfect example.
reply[1] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/fir-against-reporter-...
leosanchez 36 minutes ago
This is not specific to Asia. or South Asia. Nothing about this is specific to Asia.
replyhsbauauvhabzb 54 minutes ago
Asian specifically? Westerners are just as bad if you look into that whole nation state influencing foreign elections thing.
replykotaKat 56 minutes ago
"disrupting government work by deception" sounds like such a busywork charge here trying to do some heavy lifting. An absolutely tough, rough criminal out here...
replydist-epoch 52 minutes ago
So you are saying authorities should ignore public posts unless they are specifically sent to them?
replyWhat if another citizen forwarded the image to the police, not knowing it was AI generated? Should it have been ignored because it was not made by the sender? Should it have been ignored because it was forwarded from a public post?
There’s something hilariously poetic about a ~2,500 year old fable being relevant today, because of AI.
"South Korean police have arrested a man for sharing an AI-generated image that misled authorities who were searching for a wolf that had broken out of a zoo in Daejeon city.
The 40-year-old unnamed man is accused of disrupting the search by creating and distributing a fake photo purporting to show Neukgu, the wolf, trotting down a road intersection"
To cry wolf is to say there’s a wolf here when it’s actually located elsewhere. The AI photo said there was a wolf at a certain intersection when it was actually located elsewhere.
In fact crying wolf is doubly appropriate because it means disturbing an operation looking for a wolf.
¹ Following pronoun variant used in the fine article here.
This is misdirection while there is a wolf
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