South Korea’s women web sleuths fight AI deepfake porn

Under banners emblazoned “Solidarity” and “We stand together with victims”, a group of South Korean women digital detectives dredges the internet for a scourge of illegal AI-enabled pornography.

South Korea — home to the world’s leading smartphone and memory chipmakers — takes huge national pride in its tech prowess.

But the success story has a dark side: women suffer rampant “digital sex crimes”, rights groups say. Spycams film them in private while chat groups blackmail them for explicit content and share so-called “revenge porn” without consent.