全球AI换脸色情人物超一半是韩国人

近日，韩国“深度伪造”（deepfake）AI换脸性犯罪丑闻曝光，引发韩国社会恐慌。

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🤔️小作业：

1. Why has public awareness of the AI-generated fake nudes issue increased recently in South Korea?

A) The government launched a national campaign.

B) A popular celebrity spoke out against it.

C) A police investigation revealed the existence of a large Telegram group chat.

D) A new law was passed to combat the issue.

A) The problem is largely an international issue.

B) The majority of the perpetrators are likely South Korean.

C) The victims are mostly from other countries.

D) The content is being exported to other regions.

无注释原文：

'Anyone Can Be a Victim': Sprawling AI Fake Nudes Crisis Hits South Korea

From: The Wall Street Journal

The victims were reportedly teachers, military officers, undergraduates and elementary-school students. Across a labyrinth of Telegram group chats, anonymous users submitted photos of South Korean girls and women without their permission that were manipulated into sexually explicit images and videos viewed by hundreds of thousands.

South Korean authorities on Wednesday began an investigation to tackle faked pornographic images after a massive network was uncovered—involving hundreds of victims, many of them minors. The revelation reflected the scale of the problem facing South Korea, which according to some researchers is the source for roughly half of so-called “deepfake” porn videos spread globally.

Many countries, including the U.S., are confronting a rise in AI-generated fake nudes targeting young women and girls.

The current protections in South Korea haven't kept pace with the threats posed by AI-generated sexualized content—much of which is created by teenagers or younger children, local officials said. The country's education ministry is reviewing the maximum punishment for middle-school-aged perpetrators, or those as young as 10 years old. Lawmakers are looking to close legal loopholes, such as widening current punishments beyond those who intentionally disseminate the illicit content.

“Deepfake videos may be dismissed as mere pranks, but they are clearly criminal acts that exploit technology under the shield of anonymity,” said South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, a former prosecutor, at a Tuesday cabinet meeting. “Anyone can be a victim.”

The scale and number of victims remains under investigation. Many of the Telegram groups were organized by school name or region to allow users to easily identify mutual acquaintances and make fake nudes they could share. To gain entry, some users were required to provide photos of a woman, which were often lifted from a female classmate's social-media account, according to officials and activists. Communication in these Telegram group chats was conducted almost exclusively in Korean, suggesting an overwhelming majority of members were local.

Public awareness skyrocketed after a Telegram group chat focused on one university became public earlier this month following a police investigation. It had been active since 2020 and included around 1,200 members, authorities said, sharing not only computer-generated sexualized images but other personal information, such as the subject's phone number, address and student ID number. Fake pornographic images of at least 30 current and former students had reportedly been shared in the group.

Roughly 500 schools—from universities to elementary schools—may have been affected, according to one online tally compiled by volunteers who have combed through the group chats. The website containing the list of schools has attracted about three million page views since going live on Tuesday.

The crackdown against faked pornographic images distributed on Telegram comes days after French authorities detained Pavel Durov, the messaging app's founder and chief executive. Prosecutors there said Durov's arrest was related to an investigation into whether Telegram is enabling online criminality, including the exchange of child pornography.

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注：完整题目见本文开头；中文文本为华尔街日报官方译文，仅供参考

含注释全文：

'Anyone Can Be a Victim': Sprawling AI Fake Nudes Crisis Hits South Korea

From: The Wall Street Journal

The victims were reportedly teachers, military officers, undergraduates and elementary-school students. Across a labyrinth of Telegram group chats, anonymous users submitted photos of South Korean girls and women without their permission that were manipulated into sexually explicit images and videos viewed by hundreds of thousands.

据报道，受害者包括教师、军官、大学生和小学生。在错综复杂的Telegram群聊中，有匿名用户在未经涉事人允许的情况下发送了一些韩国女孩和妇女的照片，这些照片被制作成色情图片和视频，被数十万人观看。

sprawling /ˈsprɔː.lɪŋ/表示“蔓延的；杂乱无序伸展的”，英文解释为“spreading in an untidy way”如：a modern sprawling town 一座杂乱无序拓展的现代城镇。

sprawl /sprɔːl/ 作动词，1）表示“（懒散地）摊开四肢坐（或躺）”，英文解释为“to spread the arms and legs out carelessly and untidily while sitting or lying down”举个🌰：I knocked into her in the corridor and sent her sprawling (= knocked her over). 我在走廊里和她迎头相撞，把她撞了个四脚朝天。

2）表示“（尤指城市）杂乱无序地扩展，散乱地延伸”，英文解释为“(especially of a city) to cover a large area of land with buildings that have been added at different times so that it looks untidy”举个🌰：The refugee camps sprawl across the landscape. 眼前杂乱地散落着许多难民营。

labyrinth /ˈlæb.ə.rɪnθ/ 1）表示“迷宫；曲径”，英文解释为“a confusing set of connecting passages or paths in which it is easy to get lost”举个🌰：Finally, through a labyrinth of corridors she found his office. 穿行过迷宫般的走廊后，她最终找到了他的办公室。

2）表示“令人迷惑的东西，迷宫一样的东西”，英文解释为“something that is very confusing”举个🌰：He was no stranger to the labyrinth of love. 他经常为情所困。

anonymous /əˈnɒn.ɪ.məs/ 1）表示“匿名的”，英文解释为“If you remain anonymous when you do something, you do not let people know that you were the person who did it.”举个🌰：An anonymous benefactor stepped in to provide the prize money. 一位匿名捐助人参与进来提供了奖金。

2）表示“不记名的”，英文解释为“Something that is anonymous does not reveal who you are.”举个🌰：Of course, that would have to be by anonymous vote. 当然，那得是通过不记名投票。

3）表示“没有特色的”，英文解释为“without any unusual or interesting features”，如：long stretches of dull and anonymous countryside 大片大片千篇一律、枯燥平淡的乡村，举个🌰：He has a rather anonymous face. 他相貌平平。

manipulate /məˈnɪp.jə.leɪt/ 1）表示“操纵，控制”，英文解释为“to control something or someone to your advantage, often unfairly or dishonestly”举个🌰：Throughout her career she has very successfully manipulated the media. 她在整个职业生涯中非常成功地控制了媒体。

2）表示“（用手）操纵，控制”，英文解释为“to control something using the hands”举个🌰：The wheelchair is designed so that it is easy to manipulate. 轮椅设计得很容易用手控制。

类似的还有一个词rig.

📍rig表示“（采取不正当的手段）操纵；对…做手脚”，英文解释为“to arrange dishonestly for the result of something, for example an election, to be changed”举个🌰：He said the election had been rigged. 他说选举被人操纵了。

explicit /ɪkˈsplɪs.ɪt/ 1）表示“清楚明白的；明确的；不含糊的”，英文解释为“clear and exact”举个🌰：I gave her very explicit directions how to get here. 我明确地告诉她来这儿怎么走。

2）表示“（描绘性或暴力）赤裸裸的，露骨的”，英文解释为“showing or talking about sex or violence in a very detailed way”，如：a sexually explicit movie 有露骨性爱场面的电影。

South Korean authorities on Wednesday began an investigation to tackle faked pornographic images after a massive network was uncovered—involving hundreds of victims, many of them minors. The revelation reflected the scale of the problem facing South Korea, which according to some researchers is the source for roughly half of so-called “deepfake” porn videos spread globally.

韩国政府部门周三开始就伪造色情图片案展开调查，此前一个庞大的网络被曝光，受害者多达数百人，其中许多是未成年人。这一发现反映出韩国所面临问题的严重程度，一些研究人员认为，全球传播的所谓“深度伪造”色情视频中约有一半来自韩国。

minor /ˈmaɪnə/ 1）表示“未成年人”，英文解释为“a person who is under the age at which you legally become an adult and are responsible for your actions”

2）表示“辅修科目；辅修课程”，英文解释为“a subject that you study at university in addition to your major”。

revelation /ˌrev.əˈleɪ.ʃən/ 表示“被透露的事实；被泄露的秘密；出乎意料的事物，令人惊喜的发现”，英文解释为“A revelation is a surprising or interesting fact that is made known to people.”如：the seemingly everlasting revelations about his private life 有关他私生活的似乎永无休止的披露。

📍词根“-ation”表示“行为或过程”，前缀“revel-”（reveal, 揭示的变体，表示揭露）。想象你正在揭示一个秘密，这就是“revelation”。

📍come as/be a revelation表示“让人大开眼界；令人耳目一新；出乎意料地使人惊喜”，英文解释为“to be an extremely pleasant surprise”举个🌰：This book came as a complete revelation to me. 这本书使我茅塞顿开。

🎬 电影《惊天魔盗团2》（Now You See Me 2）中的台词提到：And the stunning revelation that FBI agent Dylan Rhodes ... 还有惊天大揭露联调局特工迪伦·罗兹…

scale /skeɪl/ 1）表示“标度，刻度；等级”，英文解释为“a set of numbers, amounts, etc., used to measure or compare the level of something”如：the Centigrade/Fahrenheit scale 摄氏/华氏温标。

2）表示“比例；比例尺”，英文解释为“the relation between the real size of something and its size on a map, model, or diagram”如：a scale of 1:10,000 比例尺为1:10000。

3）表示“大小；规模；范围”，英文解释为“the size or level of something, especially when this is large”举个🌰：We don't yet know the scale of the problem. 我们还不知道问题有多严重。

Many countries, including the U.S., are confronting a rise in AI-generated fake nudes targeting young women and girls.

在美国等许多国家，都存在由AI生成的以年轻女性和女孩为目标的假裸照数量增加的问题。

confront /kənˈfrʌnt/ 1）表示“面临（问题、任务、困难等）”，英文解释为“If you are confronted with a problem, task, or difficulty, you have to deal with it.”举个🌰：She was confronted with severe money problems. 她面临严重的资金问题。

2）表示“正视（困难局面或问题）”，英文解释为“If you confront a difficult situation or issue, you accept the fact that it exists and try to deal with it.”举个🌰：We are learning how to confront death. 我们在学习如何正视死亡。

The current protections in South Korea haven't kept pace with the threats posed by AI-generated sexualized content—much of which is created by teenagers or younger children, local officials said. The country's education ministry is reviewing the maximum punishment for middle-school-aged perpetrators, or those as young as 10 years old. Lawmakers are looking to close legal loopholes, such as widening current punishments beyond those who intentionally disseminate the illicit content.

当地官员表示，韩国目前的保护措施还不够完善，无法消除AI生成的色情内容所带来的威胁，这些内容大部分是由青少年或年龄更小的儿童制作的。韩国教育部正在审查对中学生或年仅10岁的犯罪者的最高处罚。议员们正寻求赌注法律漏洞，比如将目前的惩罚范围扩大到故意传播非法内容者之外。

perpetrator /ˈpɜːrpətreɪtər/ 表示“作恶者；犯罪者”，英文解释为“someone who does something morally wrong or illegal”

📺美剧《疑犯追踪》（Person of Interest）的片头经典台词就有一句：But victim or perpetrator, if your number is up, we'll find you. 但无论是受害人还是行凶者，只要你的号码被列出来，我们就会找到你。

loophole /ˈluːp.həʊl/ 表示“（协议或法律的）漏洞，空子，破绽”，英文解释为“a small mistake in an agreement or law that gives someone the chance to avoid having to do something”如：tax loopholes 税法的漏洞。

disseminate /dɪˈsɛmɪˌneɪt/ 表示“散布；传播；宣传”，英文解释为“To disseminate information or knowledge means to distribute it so that it reaches many people or organizations.”举个🌰：Their findings have been widely disseminated. 他们的研究成果已经广为传播。

🎬电影《疯狂父母》（Mom and Dad）第五季中的台词提到：the last thing we want to do is disseminate any information 我们要做的最后一件事是传播信息

🎬电影《美国队长3：英雄内战》（Captain America: Civil War）第五季中的台词提到："To generate, disseminate..." and preserve knowledge. 生成、传播，保护知识。

illicit /ɪˈlɪs.ɪt/ 表示“非法的；违禁的；社会不容许的”，英文解释为“illegal or disapproved of by society”如：illicit drugs such as cocaine and cannabis 可卡因和大麻之类的违禁药物。

“Deepfake videos may be dismissed as mere pranks, but they are clearly criminal acts that exploit technology under the shield of anonymity,” said South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, a former prosecutor, at a Tuesday cabinet meeting. “Anyone can be a victim.”

“可能有人认为深度伪造视频只是单纯的恶作剧，但它们显然是在匿名掩护下利用技术的犯罪行为，”担任过检察官的韩国总统尹锡悦(Yoon Suk Yeol)在周二的内阁会议上表示。“任何人都可能是受害者。”

dismiss /dɪˈsmɪs/ 1）表示“对…不予理会，摒弃，（从头脑中）去除”，英文解释为“to decide that something or someone is not important and not worth considering”举个🌰：I think he'd dismissed me as an idiot within five minutes of meeting me. 我认为他和我见面5分钟后就把我归入了傻瓜之列。

2）表示“解雇；免职；开除”，英文解释为“to officially remove sb from their job”举个🌰：She claims she was unfairly dismissed from her post. 她声称自己被无理免职。

3）表示“（常指法官因证据不足而）驳回，不受理”，英文解释为“When a judge dismisses a court case, he or she formally stops the trial, often because there is not enough proof that someone is guilty.”举个🌰：The defending lawyer asked that the charge against his client be dismissed. 辩护律师请求驳回对其委托人的指控。

prank /præŋk/ 表示“胡闹，玩笑，恶作剧”，英文解释为“a trick that is intended to be funny but not to cause harm or damage”举个🌰：When I was at school we were always playing pranks on our teachers. 我读书时我们总是搞恶作剧捉弄老师。

📍此外，恶作剧，开玩笑也可以说play jokes on someone.

exploit /ɪkˈsplɔɪt/ 1）表示“利用；剥削（…为自己谋利）”，英文解释为“to treat a person or situation as an opportunity to gain an advantage for yourself”举个🌰：He exploited his father's name to get himself a job. 他利用他父亲的名声为自己找到一份工作。

2）表示“开发，运用；利用；发挥”，英文解释为“to use sth well in order to gain as much from it as possible”举个🌰：She fully exploits the humour of her role in the play. 她在剧中把她那个角色的幽默发挥得淋漓尽致。

🎬电影《惊天魔盗团》（Now You See Me）中的台词提到：What I hate is people who exploit other people. 我只是讨厌那些利用别人的人。

作名词，表示“不寻常的行为；英勇的行为；奇遇”，英文解释为“something unusual, brave, or funny that someone has done”举个🌰：She was telling me about her exploits while travelling around Africa. 她跟我讲述了她在非洲各地旅游时的奇遇。

shield /ʃiːld/ 作动词，1）表示“保护”，英文解释为“to protect someone or something”举个🌰：She held her hand above her eyes to shield them from the sun. 她把手搭在眼睛上方以遮挡太阳。

2）表示“（足球）护球”，英文解释为“in football, to keep your body between an opponent and the ball, with your back to the other player, to prevent them from getting the ball”举个🌰：We teach young players how to step in front of the defender and use their body to shield the ball. 我们教年轻队员如何插到对方防守队员前面并用身体护球。

作名词，shield /ʃiːld/ 表示“保护物，屏障；保护者”，英文解释为“something or someone used as protection or providing protection”举个🌰：Anger can function as a shield against (= a way of avoiding) even more painful emotions of loss and hurt. 愤怒可以起到避免更加痛苦的失落感和受伤害情绪的作用。

prosecutor /ˈprɒs.ɪ.kjuː.tər/ 1）表示“公诉人；检察官”，英文解释为“a public official who charges sb officially with a crime and prosecutes them in court”，如：the public/state prosecutor 公诉人；州检察官。

2）表示“原告律师；控方律师”，英文解释为“a lawyer who leads the case against a defendant in court”

The scale and number of victims remains under investigation. Many of the Telegram groups were organized by school name or region to allow users to easily identify mutual acquaintances and make fake nudes they could share. To gain entry, some users were required to provide photos of a woman, which were often lifted from a female classmate's social-media account, according to officials and activists. Communication in these Telegram group chats was conducted almost exclusively in Korean, suggesting an overwhelming majority of members were local.

受害者的规模和人数仍在调查中。许多Telegram群组都是按学校名称或地区分类，以便用户轻松识别共同的熟人并制作可以分享的假裸照。据官员和活动人士称，为进入这些组群，一些用户被要求提供一名女性的照片，这些照片通常是从一个女同学的社交媒体账户中截取。这些Telegram组群几乎完全用韩语进行交流。

acquaintance /əˈkweɪn.təns/ 表示“相识的人，熟人；泛泛之交”，英文解释为“a person that you have met but do not know well”如：a business acquaintance 在生意上打过交道的人。

overwhelming /ˌəʊ.vəˈwel.mɪŋ/ 1）表示“难以抵挡的；无法抗拒的；强悍而令人难以应对的”，英文解释为“difficult to fight against”举个🌰：She felt an overwhelming urge/desire/need to tell someone about what had happened. 她感到有一种抑制不住的冲动/欲望/需要想告诉别人所发生的事情。

2）表示“巨大的，极大的；（数量上）压倒性的”，英文解释为“You can use overwhelming to emphasize that an amount or quantity is much greater than other amounts or quantities.”举个🌰：An overwhelming majority has voted in favour of the proposal. 绝大多数的人投票赞成该提议。

📍词根“whelm”表示“淹没”，前缀“over-”表示“过度”。近义词：staggering（惊人的），同根词：whelm（淹没），常用短语：feel overwhelmed by something（被某事压垮）

Public awareness skyrocketed after a Telegram group chat focused on one university became public earlier this month following a police investigation. It had been active since 2020 and included around 1,200 members, authorities said, sharing not only computer-generated sexualized images but other personal information, such as the subject's phone number, address and student ID number. Fake pornographic images of at least 30 current and former students had reportedly been shared in the group.

本月初，在一次警方调查导致一个聚焦某所大学的Telegram群组进入大众视野后，公众关注度急剧上升。政府部门称，该群组自2020年以来一直活跃，约有1,200名成员，不仅分享计算机生成的色情图片，还分享其他个人信息，例如涉事对象的电话号码、地址和学生证号码。据报道，该组群中分享了至少30名现在校生和往届学生的假色情图片。

skyrocket /ˈskaɪˌrɒk.ɪt/ 表示“猛涨，飞涨”，英文解释为“to rise extremely quickly or make extremely quick progress towards success”举个🌰：Housing prices have skyrocketed in recent months. 近几个月房价飞涨。

Roughly 500 schools—from universities to elementary schools—may have been affected, according to one online tally compiled by volunteers who have combed through the group chats. The website containing the list of schools has attracted about three million page views since going live on Tuesday.

根据志愿者仔细梳理这些组群聊天记录后编制的在线统计数据，大约有500所学校（从大学到小学）可能受到影响。自周二上线以来，载有该学校名单的网站已吸引了约300万次页面浏览量。

tally /ˈtæl.i/ 表示“记录；积分表；账；计数”，英文解释为“a record of the number or amount of sth, especially one that you can keep adding to”举个🌰：Make sure to keep a tally of the number of customers going in and out. 确保要记录下进出顾客的人数。

compile /kəmˈpaɪl/ 1）表示“汇编；编纂；编辑；编制”，英文解释为“to collect information from different places and arrange it in a book, report, or list”举个🌰：We're compiling some facts and figures for a documentary on the subject. 我们正在为一部有关这个主题的纪录片汇编资料。

2）表示“编译（计算机程序）”，英文解释为“to change a computer program into a machine language”

comb /kəʊm/ 1）表示“梳，梳理（头发）”，英文解释为“to pull a comb through your hair in order to make it neat”举个🌰：Don't forget to comb your hair! 别忘了梳一下头发！

2）表示“仔细搜索；搜寻”，英文解释为“to search sth carefully in order to find sb/sth”举个🌰：The police combed the area for clues. 警察彻底搜索了那个地区以寻找线索。

🎬 电影《杰罗德游戏》（Gerald's Game）中的台词提到：That in all the reports, all the cops that combed through that house, they never found my wedding ring 在报告中，所有警察把那幢房子翻了底朝天 但他们从未找到我的结婚戒指。

🎬电影《刺杀本·拉登》（Zero Dark Thirty）中的台词提到：I painstakingly combed through everything in the system and found this. 我费了好大劲把系统所有信息 梳理了一遍 找到了这个。

The crackdown against faked pornographic images distributed on Telegram comes days after French authorities detained Pavel Durov, the messaging app's founder and chief executive. Prosecutors there said Durov's arrest was related to an investigation into whether Telegram is enabling online criminality, including the exchange of child pornography. 

在此次对Telegram上传播的假色情图片进行打击的几天前，法国政府部门拘留了这款即时通讯应用的创始人兼首席执行官杜罗夫(Pavel Durov)。法国检方表示，杜罗夫被捕与一项调查有关，该调查旨在查明Telegram是否助长了网络犯罪行为，包括交换儿童色情内容。

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