On the night of August 24, Pavel Durov was arrested by the French police just after getting off the private plane at Le Bourget Airport on the outskirts of Paris.According to French official news, the lack of supervision on the platform created by Durov has led to a large number of criminal activities including the spread of false information and hate speech.This platform has a well-known name on the global Internet, Telegram, and Chinese netizens usually call it Telegram.

Just a few days after Durov, the founder of Telegraph, entered the company, another storm occurred on the Telegraph platform in South Korea, which is half a world away from France.

This storm has a very familiar name in the Korean media - "Room N".

Yes, you read that right, in South Korea, Room N is here again.

However, it is different from the previous incidents in Room N.After this incident broke out, Korean women did something that no one expected. They came to Chinese social platforms and began to ask Chinese netizens for help.

If you have been reading Weibo in the past two days, you should have paid attention to this matter.

At the end of August, a netizen nosunae-520 whose IP address was in South Korea posted on Weibo. She claimed to be a Korean girl. Now many women have been affected by Deepfake.

It is said that many Korean men have started to use photos of acquaintances of women to use AI to change their faces and then tease them. This kind of incident is especially common in schools. Girls also began to leave public photos of themselves and delete them on Instagram, but they were ridiculed by boys at the same school as "ugly people often cause trouble."

Not long after, another netizen with a Korean IP claiming to be an 18-year-old Korean female student posted a similar Weibo message using a machine translation method.

Their main purpose is to use this method to expand global attention to the issue of AI face-changing.

As for why they did not speak out on the Korean Internet, but went to Chinese platforms to post, the reason is that they are often reported when posting in South Korea, and then the platform will warn them and finally delete the posts.

Chinese girls are indeed very capable of action. In response to the call of Korean girls, they plan to organize an event in front of the Korean Embassy in London to oppose candid photography and Deepfakes.

On platforms such as Twitter, Korean girls also expressed their gratitude.

There are also Korean YouTubers who cover themselves up and chat in front of the camera, thinking that women are just making a fuss.

As soon as these outrageous remarks came out, it didn't take long for this person's YouTube earnings to be stopped.

To put things into context, it is difficult to determine whether the two netizens who posted on the Chinese platform are Korean women and whether their purpose is to gain attention for their current situation.

But what is certain is that what was mentioned in those Weibo posts really happened.

On August 28, Korean media KBS conducted an interview with a staff member of the Korean Teacher Educators Union in Gwangju. The other party said that the panic about AI face-changing has spread to schools. In Gwangju alone, more than 30-40 middle schools have been affected because students are easily exposed to similar technologies and social media.

And this interviewee gave a very exaggerated figure:Globally, more than half(53%)Deepfake sexual exploitation material, produced in South Korea, has affected even primary school students.

KBS anchor and interviewee (first from right) connected

Well, maybe everyone has no idea about the ratio of 53%.

Let’s put it this way, CCTV posted a Weibo post yesterday, which stated that the Korean education department had conducted a thorough investigation of campuses across the country in response to the problem of deep forgery crimes.

As a result, on August 27th and 29th alone, 2,500 reports were accepted, involving at least 200 schools.

These are only those who reported. No one knows how many people there are who do not dare to come forward and report.

And please note that the above numbers also have a major premise:

At the end of May this year, an incident in Room N occurred in South Korea. At that time, the keyword "Room N Incident" at Seoul National University aroused widespread discussion on the Korean Internet, and it also became popular in China.

The cause of the incident was that several male alumni of Seoul National University collected photos of female students at the same school through the Internet and other methods over many years, synthesized explicit images using Deepfake technology, and then disseminated them through the Telegram platform, even teasing and intimidating the original owners of the photos.

The police are powerless to deal with the concealment of the Telegram platform, and usually close the case hastily. In the end, they can basically only get a reply of "we will try our best." As for how to try our best, only God knows.

Later, the worried victims went to the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office and the Seoul High Prosecutor's Office, but they were rejected again.

In desperation, they found Yuan Enzhi (transliteration), a member of the "Tracking Team·Spark" who had investigated the incident in Room N, to help them investigate.

Yuan Eunji first forged the identity of a middle-aged man who graduated from Seoul National University and had a lovely wife, and established contact with him. Then after two years of contact, she gradually dispelled the other party's suspicion and started further actions.

In order to seduce the other party to show up, she said to the culprit, I will give you my wife's underwear, and then these people who were controlled by the small head came offline and were exposed in front of the camera.

Several of the murderers who caused panic at Seoul National University were all brought to justice by the police.

When the truth came to light, everyone knew why Korean women were so panicked about this matter.

Park, one of the five culprits, produced AI-generated adult content for approximately 48 female victims, including minors. He is accused of producing approximately 400 false videos and distributing approximately 1,700 videos between July 2021 and April this year.

Several criminals who were hiding deep among people were dug out, and the authorities dealt with them as they should, but I predicted at that time that this matter would never be over.

At that time, Koreans were making a lot of noise on the Internet. Wherever you could leave a message, someone would definitely say that the country was going to end.

Facts have also proved that Koreans do understand Korea.

The reason is that the words Room N do not represent a certain event, but a certain type of event.

After the first exposure of Room N, Dr. Zhao and others involved in the case went to jail. After the incident in Room N at Seoul National University, the team involved also went to jail. But look, now another Room N has appeared.

It is not enough to catch the murderer. The focus is on the soil of crime, which never seems to change. Everyone was busy cleaning the house, but they just didn't want to take a look at the elephant in the room.

The Korea Times reported that the perpetrators of Deepfake were not afraid of warnings from the police at all. They even boasted on social platforms that they thought they would not be caught, and laughed at the fuss made by the government and media.

Lee Soo-jung, a professor of criminal psychology at Gyeonggi University, believes that since 2022, mainly Europe has begun to formulate laws to hold platforms that disseminate sexual exploitation content accountable, but South Korea still has no punitive regulations, only surveillance.

Why can’t South Korea always handle these things? Because Telegram has never responded to the South Korean government’s request for cooperation in investigating sex crimes.

So in the real world, South Korean bureaucrats and politicians and Deepfake content producers seem to have reached a delicate balance.

Politicians have put forward various opinions and suggestions, but in the end they cannot be implemented. Deepfake content producers will continue to play as they want, and the world will be as bad as it is.

The disease still needs strong medicine. There is one less fierce person in South Korea who dares to lift the table and arrest the founder of Telegram.

Some people may have forgotten the origin of the term "Room N".

At that time, the sexual exploitation chat rooms were named "Room 1" and "Room 2" respectively. By analogy, this type of chat room is collectively called Room N.

Behind N is the proliferation of pornographic bullying on the Internet, as well as the endless desires in human nature. The person sitting in front of the screen and peering into room N stood in a position of absolute dominance, exuding malice uncontrollably. In the end, even he became accustomed to it.

This kind of malice spreads through the Internet and proliferates like cockroaches, crawling into every corner. It wasn't until one day that it was exposed to the eyes of ordinary people that everyone knew that a corner of the Internet was full of cyber cockroaches filled with the rotten smell of humanity.

The best way to deal with cockroaches is not communication and gentleness, insecticides are the best medicine. Some things shouldn't be there. Killing cockroaches and flushing them into the sewer is good for them and me.