[Shot!] Dressed in School Uniforms and Even Sexual Demands…

"Child Sexual Exploitation Role-Play" Rampant on AI Chat Platforms
Numerous characters implying minors, such as baby bottles and school uniforms
Consumed even by adolescents without restriction amid a lack of regulation
Authorities: "Reports received… monitoring obscene content"

Amid growing concern over child sexual exploitation material using artificial intelligence (AI) deepfakes (advanced image-manipulation technology), sexual exploitation role-play is now being carried out outright on chat platforms.

Beyond merely exposing inappropriate images, users are inducing sexual situations through real-time conversations with child characters, and these are being "realized."

On the 14th, the AI-based Chat Platform A had numerous characters that appear to be minors publicly available, such as a baby holding a bottle, a schoolgirl in uniform, and a small-framed girl. In some cases, sexual acts were even depicted in the promotional images.

Specific age ranges such as "elementary school student" and "12-year-old girl" are set, and some characters are promoted with images of young girls in underwear.

There are characters with descriptions such as "was called a genius child actor since kindergarten and is still active now as an elementary school student," or characters set as teenage students sitting in a classroom.

These AI characters are designed to respond immediately to users' demands.

When a greeting of "Hello" was sent to a character on Platform A described as 140 cm tall, weighing 25 kg, and having "a body as small as an elementary school student," a situational message was transmitted stating, "She lightly grabbed the hem of what looked like a school uniform skirt and began to spin and circle around you." The character then continued the inappropriate role-play, sending messages explicitly demanding sexual acts.

Platform A is a chat platform where users can converse with AI-created characters. There is no age restriction for sign-up, and it is limited to those aged 14 and over only at the profile-setting stage.

Users can create AI characters themselves or converse in real time with characters made by others. It is used for various purposes such as dating, counseling for worries, and role-playing. Basic use is free, and with paid subscriptions, high-performance AI models can be applied to sustain long and elaborate conversations.

The problem is that some users are abusing this for sexual conversations or sexual exploitation role-play. Because age, appearance, personality, and the like can be set in detail when creating characters, many characters reminiscent of minors—such as those in school uniforms or with childlike body types—are being generated.

As the controversy spread, Platform A announced on the 12th, "We will sequentially make private the characters that induce inappropriate depictions in an appearance that could be mistaken for a minor or while wearing a school uniform."

However, even after the announcement, a considerable number of minor-set characters remain searchable and available for conversation. While specific keywords or images can be blocked, it is difficult to control in real time the sexual role-play itself that users cunningly induce through conversation with the AI.

In online communities gathering Platform A users, methods to evade the crackdown are even being shared.

Referring to "nong-kae"—slang meaning characters with the body type of a young girl—users warned one another, saying things like "Are you going to delete your nong-kae in advance?" and "Don't relax just because it hasn't been made private yet," sharing the status of minor-character deletions and detections.

An official of the Broadcasting, Media and Communications Standards Commission stated in a written inquiry to Yonhap News on the 13th, "Reports related to Platform A have currently been confirmed," adding, "The Commission independently monitors obscene information. If content violating current laws is confirmed on the site, we plan to take appropriate action through deliberation."

But it is not only Platform A.

On Platform B, promotions use a chat titled "Your Daughter," evoking a father-daughter relationship, or feature young-girl characters with bodies markedly smaller than adult males, with images depicting sexual acts.

In addition, on Platforms C, D, and E, chat characters set as 10-year-old elementary students or 17-year-old high school students in school uniforms have appeared.

Such exploitation material is a representative type of harmful content running rampant amid the lack of regulation on AI content.

Currently, Grok, the AI chatbot of X (formerly Twitter) owned by Elon Musk, stands at the center of a controversy over generating sexual images, and sensational, over-the-top AI content such as "fruit affair dramas"—which anthropomorphize fruits and the like to depict adultery and unethical acts—is also spreading.

Adolescents can also consume such content without any particular restriction.

Attorney Heo Jung-won of Daeryun Law Firm explained, "Even for AI-generated images or virtual characters, if they are clearly perceived as children or adolescents through school uniforms, a childlike appearance, a student setting, and the like, and depict the sexual acts stipulated in Article 2, Item 4 of the Act on the Protection of Children and Adolescents Against Sex Offenses, they may be subject to punishment."

However, Attorney Heo pointed out, "Under current law, the boundary is ambiguous as to whether even drawings or cartoons that simply depict children and adolescents in image form are included as subject to punishment, or whether only computer-graphics-level representations that look like real children apply," adding, "It is necessary to supplement the criteria for judging the 'clarity' of being perceived as a child or adolescent."

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