“Disturbing” AI-Generated Edits Of K-Pop Idols With Fans Cause Alarm

Fans are highly concerned.

It’s been a while since K-pop idols have gotten caught up in a pickle regarding AI-generated edits and deepfake videos of them on the internet, and the issue seems to have gotten worse, as per the latest developments.

In the recent few days, many K-Pop fans have brought to attention a “disturbing” new trend on social media involving a different kind of AI-generated content. Instead of deepfakes that superimpose the faces of idols onto the bodies of other people, these edited videos are created out of still pictures.

This technology allows, for instance, a mirror selfie of TXT‘s Yeonjun to be turned into a video of him kissing a random internet user.

A similar video was created by a BTS fan using a picture from Jungkook‘s Calvin Klein campaign.

And Stray Kids’ Bangchan wasn’t spared either.

These videos, which popped up within a very short span of one another, have gotten fans concerned about this kind of content becoming a trend in online spaces. Many vocalized their discomfort with the moral implications of it as they saw these videos as clearly violating the idols’ personal dignity.

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This new AI edit trend has added to the troubles of the K-Pop industry still grappling with deepfake pornography created using idols’ faces. Read more about it here.

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