Host of Miss Korea apologises for 'inappropriate question' about deepfake
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"The 'deepfake video' in the question referred to 'recreating a real-life image by using AI technology, and was asking about the difference between (the candidates') actual self and the digitally-recreated version of themselves,” the company explained.

The host company of the 68th annual Miss Korea competition issued an official apology Thursday, concerning a question for the finalists about videos using deepfake technology.

During this year’s event in Seoul on Tuesday, 15 finalists had to answer various pre-prepared questions. One of the questions was, “If the image of myself in a deepfake video looks more attractive (than myself), how could I reduce the gap (between the image) and my actual self?”

“It was wrong for us as the host to use the word deepfake, when the illegal videos using deepfake technology are inflicting severe damage (in the society) … We should have taken more care with the questions, considering that deepfake is currently being misused to create illegal sexual videos,” said the Global E&B, subsidiary of the Hankook Ilbo daily, offering an apology for all candidates of the event and anyone who felt discomfort from the question.

  • restingboredface@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    22·
    2 months ago

    Wow wtf. Their apology doesn’t even hint at one of the biggest problems in the question, that people shouldn’t be aspiring to become “better” AI-generated versions of themselves. What kind of dick asks people to even consider that?

    • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 months ago

      Yesterday ironically, I added a field in my dating profile that says essentially: If you have AI’d and filtered the heck out of your profile photos, we are not going to get along.