Deepfake teen victims 22 times more...Expert "It's becoming cultural" [Anchor Report]

The heavy sentence of the perpetrator of Seoul National University's Room N case once again raised the alarm about digital sex crimes.

However, the production and distribution of digital sexual exploitation by teenagers is still serious.

Notable statistics have been made in this regard.

Let's watch it together.

[Kim Ja-yang / YTN News UP PD (last August): (Deepfake) The majority of victims appeared to be teenagers. The youngest group was born in 2011, and now they are about 13 to 14 years old middle school students, and I was able to check the chat room where their personal information was shared.]

At a time when sexual exploitation crimes using the mobile messenger "Telegram" were rampant, our News UP production team checked the situation directly at the time and found that
I told him that I confirmed that many of the victims of
are teenagers.

Recently, data supporting this have been released.

This is data related to minor victims of "digital sex crimes" recently submitted to the National Assembly by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family.

Regarding the production and dissemination of illegal photographs, including deepfake sexual exploitation,

More than one out of five victims were under the age of 10 (22.5%)
This is the second highest number after
20s.

What's worse is that the number is increasing.

In 2018, the number of youth victims under the age of 10 from 111 was

As of last month, the number of people increased more than 20 times to 2,400.

Compared to the 6.9-fold increase in the total number of victims of digital sex crimes, the increase is noticeable.

If you narrow it down further to the damage to the deepfake production, the seriousness becomes more prominent.

In the past three years, a total of 520 victims of deepfake cases investigated by police have been reported,
The proportion of teenagers in
accounted for as much as 60% (315 people).

It's about three out of five victims.

Another problem is that there are overwhelmingly many teenagers who make deepfake works.

In fact, if you look at 964 cases that the police investigated from this year to the 25th,
Of the 500 suspects in the
prosecution, 410 are teenagers,
It accounts for over 80% of


In particular, 78 boys aged 10 to 14 are also under the age of 14, raising great concern.

Deepfake sex exploitation crime in which both the victim and the perpetrator are concentrated in their teens.

What they have in common is that they are relatively more familiar with smart devices than other age groups.

A situation in which a device that would have been given as a play tool has become a criminal means.

Experts said this atmosphere is becoming a kind of culture and called for active action.

[Oh Sun-hee / Lawyer (YTN Issue Plus): In fact, the majority of perpetrators are minors. The basis of this is that the age of using SNS has decreased a lot. It's become very easy to get pictures of others. There is a culture of teenagers who get a picture of their classmates on social media and use it as a form of insulting friends, and this culture is actually very criminal and punishable. It's time for education at school, in society, at home, and at home.]