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S. Korea police arrest man over AI image of runaway wolf that misled authorities

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gx1n0dl9no
83•giuliomagnifico•2h ago

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_fw•1h ago
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’?

There’s something hilariously poetic about a ~2,500 year old fable being relevant today, because of AI.

lukan•1h ago
No, not really. There was a real wolf and the person dusturbed the operation.

"South Korean police have arrested a man for sharing an AI-generated image that misled authorities who were searching for a wolf that had broken out of a zoo in Daejeon city.

The 40-year-old unnamed man is accused of disrupting the search by creating and distributing a fake photo purporting to show Neukgu, the wolf, trotting down a road intersection"

sillysaurusx•52m ago
But there are real wolves when shepherding too. That’s why crying wolf has any power.

To cry wolf is to say there’s a wolf here when it’s actually located elsewhere. The AI photo said there was a wolf at a certain intersection when it was actually located elsewhere.

In fact crying wolf is doubly appropriate because it means disturbing an operation looking for a wolf.

croes•45m ago
Crying wolf is normally starting the operation while there isn‘t a wolf.

This is misdirection while there is a wolf

Similar but different

weird-eye-issue•7m ago
That's completely pedantic and besides it's false because there literally wasn't a wolf there where he faked the photo in the first place
psychoslave•42m ago
The biggest difference now is wolf is actually sought to protect him¹ from the crowd of the super-predators in town, so they can "give him a calm environment for recovery".

¹ Following pronoun variant used in the fine article here.

PUSH_AX•6m ago
> the person dusturbed the operation

Did they? The article says it's unclear as to their intent.

> Authorities did not specify if the man had intentionally sent the photo to authorities during their search or simply shared it online.

Razengan•18m ago
> somebody has been (rightfully or wrongfully) arrested for literally ‘crying wolf’?

Willfully diverting limited public service resources, that might potentially be assigned to saving someone's life or health?

Practically a social DoS

prmoustache•1h ago
> 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.

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?

spiffyk•1h ago
Pretty sure if you let only a handful of individuals from an almost-extinct species roam around freely in an uncontrolled environment, chances are pretty high something is going to kill off them before they reproduce, hence why they are almost-extinct.

The zoo provides a controlled environment needed to restore the species.

05•1h ago
Maybe it’s because wolves are genetically dogs and will cross breed and the conservation program supposedly needs to increase the numbers of that particular breed and not just wolves/dogs in general?
christoff12•1h ago
I'm a little surprised zoo animals aren't chipped with some kind of beacon locator for incidents such as these.
ErroneousBosh•53m ago
What sort of size do you think that would be?
chrisweekly•29m ago
size of chip? they're tiny. dog owners typically have the vet "chip" their pet as a puppy. full-grown dog doesn't need a bigger chip.
jannes•27m ago
Those chips cannot track a dog's location
codebje•26m ago
Those chips need to be scanned from about 3cm away. If you want a locator tag, it needs to carry enough power to broadcast a signal a useful distance. Still, a microchip is handy if you're not sure if it's your tiger you found.
sigmoid10•1h ago
Title should be "Man arrested for deceptive and antisocial behavior".

The only reason you are seeing this right now is because it has AI in the title.

AussieWog93•43m ago
Yes, it's an interesting and novel thing about a topic many people here are interested in.
darkwater•33m ago
Yes, and at the same time we should ask the question: would the intersection between "people who think this is a funny thing to do" and "people with the technical capabilities to actually generate something that misleads police" [1] return a value > 0 before GenAI?

[1] waiting for some example where fool policemen where outsmarted with simple tricks /s

jamesnorden•21m ago
The one time the headline isn't misleading, you want it changed?
raincole•18m ago
Except the actual title here is clearer. Your suggestion is so anti-AI-clickbait that it overflew and became a bad title again.

If Tesla (insert any car manufacturer you hate) ran over a kid I'd like to see the title say it, instead of "Tesla fined for violating traffic laws."

maplethorpe•12m ago
Isn't the technology that enabled the deception noteworthy? Presumably this person wouldn't have been able to do this before AI.

Hypothetically, if a hacking tool was released that let non-technical people hack into sensitive databases, and then a journalist wrote the headline "local man hacks IRS", without any mention of the tool, wouldn't that be a bit irresponsible, to purposely leave that information out?

Gigachad•41m ago
IMO you should be legally required to disclose that a video has been AI generated when you share it.
jonnonz•35m ago
This is how the future will look!
kqp•34m ago
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.
stingraycharles•27m ago
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.
msh•24m ago
I think many places, even without specific deepfake laws, would prosecute someone who used a fake image to mislead the police.
antiloper•15m ago
Need this in the west as well
pluc•13m ago
Get used to it, it's gonna keep happening since we're dumb enough to create a technology that mirrors reality with no safeguards whatsoever.
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