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South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf

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Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf

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I'm a little surprised zoo animals aren't chipped with some kind of beacon locator for incidents such as these.

What sort of size do you think that would be?

Small and low energy enough that tiny migratory birds can wear them for months. Externally worn of course (e.g. attached to the ear, for a wolf).

You could adjust the firmware of a wildlife tag to start transmitting location every 10 minutes when the animal leaves a geo-fence.

Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf

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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.

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 int…

There was a real wolf in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", too.

Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf

#54

> 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?

They live in a pretty big conservatory (korean link but you can see the pictures)

https://m.wikitree.co.kr/articles/1132213

Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf

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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.

> 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

Yeah, I really don't see the difference with false bomb alerts.

Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf

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post #10

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.

The fable was always relevant, afaic it is still a part of the curriculums. It's also a nice illustration of how LLMs screw up everything they touch - and please don't serve me the old "guns don't kill people - people kill people" argument over this.

Is there a reason you felt the need to slip this non sequitur in your reply?

Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf

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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.

The fable was always relevant, afaic it is still a part of the curriculums. It's also a nice illustration of how LLMs screw up everything they touch - and please don't serve me the old "guns don't kill people - people kill people" argument over this.

> It's also a nice illustration of how LLMs screw up everything they touch

And you'll be shocked what the kids have been doing with databases and API calls

Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf

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How about not believing everything that's posted to the Internet. This could've easily been done with Photoshop in the pre AI era.

"easily" is doing some heavy lifting there. Is Photoshopping this image together really easier than prompting an AI?

Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf

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It is, quite frankly, completely wrong that this man was arrested—if anything, by this line of reasoning, it should have been an artist instead—since AI, as we are told, merely makes copies of what hard-working human artists have already created and shared on the internet.

AI is plagiarism—full stop—nothing more, nothing less.

Of course, this point could have been made without sarcasm (and AI tells for parody)—I’m aware—but that would remove a certain… texture from the argument. And where, exactly, is the fun in that?

Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf

#60

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.

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?

> Presumably this person wouldn't have been able to do this before AI.

Photoshop? I don't think you need much skill.

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