The dude openly admits that he posted the image "for fun", so there was clearly nefarious behavior and purposely wanted to confuse police and the investigation. I don't see why people are trying to defend this dude as him simply "posting a picture of a wolf". I guess people will defend any sort of bad behavior in this day and age.
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
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
what an incredibly dumb thread this is. OP pointed out something amusing and it's being ruined by completely useless pedantry
I'm honestly not convinced that it isn't just LLMs going in circles with each other
Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf
#113Are 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…
Perhaps you forgot the fable which... features a real wolf.
Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
what an incredibly dumb thread this is. OP pointed out something amusing and it's being ruined by completely useless pedantry
Serious suggestion: we flag responses or have a separate flag for comments which are unnecessarily pedantic / the commenter is functionally illiterate / the commenter didn't read (the three things are somewhat indistinguishable).
Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf
#115Are 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
>Willfully diverting limited public service resources, that might potentially be assigned to saving someone's life or health?
This is an accurate criticism of the boy in the fable, if... an unnecessary way to express the idea.
Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf
#116It 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.
That was the impression I got as well, but it seems like other people disagree.
It's always amusing to see what crimes people demand to have strict liability for, yes. "He posted a wrong location online, of course that'd disrupt the search for the wolf, right to jail, right away".
Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf
#117I'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?
No idea. Surely some enterprising engineer could come up with a viable solution that could be sold to zoos all over, though.
Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
what an incredibly dumb thread this is. OP pointed out something amusing and it's being ruined by completely useless pedantry
I find that building a personal blocklist extension for myself lets me treat such threads as fertile grounds. I no longer get annoyed because I am pleased that I can quickly remove a lot of low quality commenters at once. Recommend writing one for yourself (trivial with LLM).
Original comment was clever and subsequent commenters were uninteresting to me. In this case, I only saw it because I’m on my phone which doesn’t have Chrome extensions. Turns out I’d already blocked them.
Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf
#119It 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.
Authorities also presented the AI image during a press briefing on the runaway wolf, local media reported. ... Authorities did not specify if the man had intentionally sent the photo to authorities during their search or simply shared it online.
With the info presented in the article, it sounds like the cops jumped to conclusions, got publicly embarrassed and are now going after him to either save face or get revenge (depending on how credulous you are of LEO).
Re: South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf
#120It 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.
> It seems the police just read a post by a random person on the internet, assumed it’s true
If it was true and police saw it but didn’t act, the fallout for them could be much worse depending on the outcome.