Three years after the 30-year-old South Korean woman received a barrage of online fake images that depicted her nude, she is still being treated for trauma. She struggles to talk with men. Using a mobile phone brings back the nightmare. It completely trampled me, even though it wasn't a direct physical attack on my body, she said in a phone interview with The Associated Press.
Many other South Korean women recently have come forward to share similar stories as South Korea grapples with a deluge of non-consensual, explicit deepfake videos and images that have become much more accessible and easier to create.
It was not until last week that parliament revised a law to make watching or possessing deepfake porn content illegal. Most suspected perpetrators in South Korea are teenage boys.
Observers say the boys target female friends, relatives and acquaintances - also mostly minors - as a prank, out of curiosity or misogyny.
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