Intranet pictures of troopers, army and protection ministry officers have been made unavailable over considerations they could possibly be abused to make sexually abusive deepfake photographs, officers mentioned Sunday.
Such pictures had been made invisible from the army’s Onnara System intranet and the web sites of army items as of Thursday final week, army officers mentioned.
Solely these with due authority can entry such pictures.
“There was the potential for the pictures being abused for intercourse crimes as a result of particular person pictures may be accessed and downloaded,” a protection ministry official mentioned. “It isn’t recognized whether or not the intranet pictures had been abused for deepfakes, however we made them unavailable to stop that.” (Yonhap)