Activists wearing eye masks hold posters reading “Repeated deepfake sex crimes, the state is an accomplice too,” during a protest against sexually abusive deepfakes in Seoul, South Korea, on Aug. 30. Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images
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SEOUL, South Korea — Students of all ages, teachers, soldiers and now journalists. More and more ordinary South Korean women are finding out they are targets of a fast-growing form of digital sex abuse: deepfakes.
South Korean authorities are scrambling to respond after local media and crowdsourced efforts recently uncovered large numbers of chat rooms on the messaging app