S. Korea police arrest man over AI image of runaway wolf that misled authorities
by giuliomagnifico on 4/24/2026, 9:17:57 AM
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gx1n0dl9no
Comments
by: _fw
Are you trying to tell me, in this the year of our lord 2026, somebody has been (rightfully or wrongfully) arrested for literally ‘crying wolf’?<p>There’s something hilariously poetic about a ~2,500 year old fable being relevant today, because of AI.
4/24/2026, 10:10:00 AM
by: sigmoid10
Title should be "Man arrested for deceptive and antisocial behavior".<p>The only reason you are seeing this right now is because it has AI in the title.
4/24/2026, 10:23:07 AM
by: stingraycharles
South Korea has some very specific (and unusually harsh) laws around deepfakes. I was under the impression that it was only about impersonating people, but apparently it’s broader.
4/24/2026, 11:00:23 AM
by: kqp
It sounds like he didn’t actually file a false police report. They don’t even say they asked him whether it’s true. It seems the police just read a post by a random person on the internet, assumed it’s true, then arrested him when it wasn’t. The article is devastatingly light on info, though, so I can’t be sure.
4/24/2026, 10:53:34 AM
by: christoff12
I'm a little surprised zoo animals aren't chipped with some kind of beacon locator for incidents such as these.
4/24/2026, 10:18:35 AM
by: prmoustache
> Neukgu is part of a programme at O-World to restore the Korean wolf, which once roamed the Korean Peninsula but is now considered extinct in the wild.<p>I don't understand, shouldn't they have let him go if the idea is that they still roam in the wild? Why forcing it back to a zoo?
4/24/2026, 10:11:30 AM
by: Gigachad
IMO you should be legally required to disclose that a video has been AI generated when you share it.
4/24/2026, 10:47:02 AM
by: jonnonz
This is how the future will look!
4/24/2026, 10:52:48 AM
by: junaru
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4/24/2026, 9:55:21 AM