Many criticized the pageant for ridiculing sexual crimes.
South Korea has been grappling with a rising variety of sexual crimes involving AI-generated deepfakes. Amidst this disaster, the 2024 Miss Korea pageant has obtained immense backlash for asking an insensitive query in regards to the matter.
On September 24, throughout a question-answer spherical of the pageant, all the contestants have been requested, “If I look extra engaging in a deepfake video, how can I bridge the hole between that and the actual me?”
Viewers have been instantly uncomfortable with the implications of the query and flocked to the Miss Korea Instagram account to bombard them with questions and criticism. Most objected to the way in which the query appeared to trivialize deepfake sexual crimes and painting them as merely a problem of magnificence requirements.
Initially, netizens seen that Miss Korea was deleting feedback asking for solutions from the organizers, and the account later restricted its feedback as nicely. It wasn’t till September 26 that International E&B Co., the organizer of the pageant, posted an official apology on Instagram. They supplied a proof within the apology, stating that by “deepfake,” what they supposed to indicate was photos or movies created by means of AI that alter somebody’s digital look considerably. However they acknowledged their mistake in selecting the incorrect phrase, particularly given the present havoc that deepfake has wreaked in South Korea.
The query was posed to listen to the contestants’ ideas on the present state of affairs the place AI digital know-how is broadly utilized in motion pictures, ads, training, and so forth., however contemplating the present actuality the place ‘deepfake’ is being abused for unlawful sexual movies, we must always have been way more cautious with the query.
— International E&B Co.
The organizers apologized to the viewers and the contestants who have been uncomfortable with the query and promised to be extra cautious sooner or later.
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