영어 독해 #기사 #사회 : 3 suspects apprehended for selling celebrity deepfake porn: police

3 suspects apprehended for selling celebrity deepfake porn: police

ㄴ apprehend: 체포하다, 파악하다 (=arrest, seize)

 

 

Three suspects are accused of selling sexually explicit deepfake images and videos of over 20 South Korean celebrities, including minors, through Telegram, according to Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency on Friday.

ㄴ explicit : 분명한, 명백한, 솔직한, 노골적인 (=obvious, plain)

ㄴ provincial: 주, 도, 지방의

 

Police officials announced two suspects were arrested and one was apprehended without arrest Thursday in violation of the Juvenile Protection Act and the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment of Sexual Crimes.

ㄴ arrest vs. apprehend : 공식적인, 법적 체포 vs. 추적 끝에 범인을 잡다는 포괄적인 뉘앙스\

ㄴ in violation of: ~에 위반하여

ㄴ juvenile: 청소년의, 어린애같은, 유치한 (=teenaged, adolescent, childish, immature, infantile)

The police said the three suspects were in their 20s and were either university students or unemployed.

The three suspects are accused of selling deepfake images and videos featuring more than 20 celebrities, some of minors, performing sexual acts through numerous Telegram chat rooms.

ㄴ feature: ~의 특징을 이루다, 특징으로 삼다

ㄴ numerous: 수많은

Called “Hapsabang,” with “hapsa” being an abbreviation of a Korean word meaning composite photo and “bang” referring to a chatroom, the three suspects allegedly ran such chatrooms from November 2023 to July 2024.

ㄴ abbreviation: 축약, 약어

ㄴ composite: 합성의, 합성물

ㄴ allegedly: (근거없이) 주장하는, ~ 설의

Twenty-four suspects, who are in their teens or 20s, allegedly purchased sexually explicit deepfake content from the three chatroom operators and were also booked by the police for violating the Juvenile Protection Act.

However, the police added that the number of those arrested for purchasing deepfake pornography content through the chatroom could increase as the police are looking into 80 additional suspected buyers.

Police officials added that the buyers paid between 20,000 to 40,000 won ($15-$30) to enter the Telegram chatrooms, where they could download or watch the deepfake content being uploaded.

According to the police, the Telegram chatrooms were discovered through the police’s cyber monitoring process back in April, prompting police officials to launch an investigation into the operators behind the chatrooms.

ㄴ prompt: 즉각적인, 지체없는 / ~하도록 촉발하다, 유도하다

(명사 앞에 쓰이지 않는 형용사인 경우 신속한, 시간을 엄수하는)

After apprehending the three suspects in charge of running the chatrooms, the police seized more than 10 million won the suspects made from the crime.

ㄴ seize: 와락 붙잡다, 장악하다, 체포하다

The police stated that during the investigation one suspect admitted that he had downloaded deepfake pornography featuring Korean celebrities from other Telegram chatrooms overseas and resold it.

ㄴ admit : 인정하다, 자백하다, 들어가게 하다

Based on police investigation so far, the police added that they currently believe the three suspects did not create the deepfake pornographic content themselves.

“As of now, there is no evidence of the deepfake pornographic content sold by the three suspects being further disseminated,” a police official told local media. “Under the current law, anyone who purchases, possesses or watches sexually exploitative content featuring minors is punishable by imprisonment for more than one year.”

ㄴ as of now : 현재로서는

ㄴ disseminate: (정보, 지식 등을) 퍼뜨리다, 전파하다

ㄴ exploitative: 착취하는 (* 발음이 어려운 편이므로, 연습 필요)

ㄴ imprisonment: 징역형

Meanwhile, the Korean National Police Agency reported Thursday that it will budget up to 500 million won to upgrade its software in detecting fake content generated through deepfakes distributed in secure messengers such as Telegram -- a 300 million won increase from its budget in 2023.

ㄴ distribute: 나누어주다, 유통시키다, 나누어 퍼뜨리다

Additionally, the police will also invest a total of 9.1 billion won by 2027, including 2.7 billion won this year, to develop a deep-learning technology to detect deepfake content in response to the increasing number of artificial intelligence-generated material targeting women.

 

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유사한 의미를 가진 단어

체포하다 = apprehend, arrest, seize

합성의 = composite, artificial

퍼뜨리다, 전파하다 = disseminate, distribute

 

 

* 경제적 이익이 아닌, 외국어 공부를 위해 작성한 글로, 문제가 될 시 삭제하도록 하겠습니다.

 

🔎 출처: 코리아헤럴드, 이정주 기자

https://n.news.naver.com/article/044/0000261357?type=main

3 suspects apprehended for selling celebrity deepfake porn: police