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.
lukan 1 hours ago [-]
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 intersection"
sillysaurusx 1 hours ago [-]
But there are real wolves when shepherding too. That’s why crying wolf has any power.
To cry wolf is to say there’s a wolf here when it’s actually located elsewhere. The AI photo said there was a wolf at a certain intersection when it was actually located elsewhere.
In fact crying wolf is doubly appropriate because it means disturbing an operation looking for a wolf.
psychoslave 52 minutes ago [-]
The biggest difference now is wolf is actually sought to protect him¹ from the crowd of the super-predators in town, so they can "give him a calm environment for recovery".
¹ Following pronoun variant used in the fine article here.
croes 55 minutes ago [-]
Crying wolf is normally starting the operation while there isn‘t a wolf.
This is misdirection while there is a wolf
Similar but different
weird-eye-issue 16 minutes ago [-]
That's completely pedantic and besides it's false because there literally wasn't a wolf there where he faked the photo in the first place
PUSH_AX 16 minutes ago [-]
> the person dusturbed the operation
Did they? The article says it's unclear as to their intent.
> Authorities did not specify if the man had intentionally sent the photo to authorities during their search or simply shared it online.
pj_mukh 13 minutes ago [-]
If this was America there would be 20 think pieces in the Atlantic about how AI is ruining our culture and no one would get arrested.
moron4hire 5 minutes ago [-]
There was a real wolf in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", too.
hansmayer 11 minutes ago [-]
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.
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Razengan 27 minutes ago [-]
> 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
littlestymaar 2 minutes ago [-]
Yeah, I really don't see the difference with false bomb alerts.
kqp 44 minutes ago [-]
It 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.
sigmoid10 1 hours ago [-]
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.
maplethorpe 21 minutes ago [-]
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?
AussieWog93 52 minutes ago [-]
Yes, it's an interesting and novel thing about a topic many people here are interested in.
jamesnorden 31 minutes ago [-]
The one time the headline isn't misleading, you want it changed?
raincole 27 minutes ago [-]
Except the actual title here is clearer. Your suggestion is so anti-AI-clickbait that it overflew and became a bad title again.
If Tesla (insert any car manufacturer you hate) ran over a kid I'd like to see the title say it, instead of "Tesla fined for violating traffic laws."
darkwater 42 minutes ago [-]
Yes, and at the same time we should ask the question: would the intersection between "people who think this is a funny thing to do" and "people with the technical capabilities to actually generate something that misleads police" [1] return a value > 0 before GenAI?
[1] waiting for some example where fool policemen where outsmarted with simple tricks /s
bblb 8 minutes ago [-]
How about not believing everything that's posted to the Internet. This could've easily been done with Photoshop in the pre AI era.
pluc 22 minutes ago [-]
Get used to it, it's gonna keep happening since we're dumb enough to create a technology that mirrors reality with no safeguards whatsoever.
gmerc 17 minutes ago [-]
Oh actually penalizing people does help
kreco 8 minutes ago [-]
Penalizing people is slow and does not scale as much as AI creations that can be mass produced.
prmoustache 1 hours ago [-]
> 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?
boodleboodle 2 minutes ago [-]
They live in a pretty big conservatory (korean link but you can see the pictures)
Pretty sure if you let only a handful of individuals from an almost-extinct species roam around freely in an uncontrolled environment, chances are pretty high something is going to kill off them before they reproduce, hence why they are almost-extinct.
The zoo provides a controlled environment needed to restore the species.
05 1 hours ago [-]
Maybe it’s because wolves are genetically dogs and will cross breed and the conservation program supposedly needs to increase the numbers of that particular breed and not just wolves/dogs in general?
sammy2255 5 minutes ago [-]
What is the charge?
christoff12 1 hours ago [-]
I'm a little surprised zoo animals aren't chipped with some kind of beacon locator for incidents such as these.
ErroneousBosh 1 hours ago [-]
What sort of size do you think that would be?
Luc 5 minutes ago [-]
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.
chrisweekly 39 minutes ago [-]
size of chip? they're tiny. dog owners typically have the vet "chip" their pet as a puppy. full-grown dog doesn't need a bigger chip.
codebje 35 minutes ago [-]
Those chips need to be scanned from about 3cm away. If you want a locator tag, it needs to carry enough power to broadcast a signal a useful distance. Still, a microchip is handy if you're not sure if it's your tiger you found.
jannes 36 minutes ago [-]
Those chips cannot track a dog's location
1 hours ago [-]
stingraycharles 37 minutes ago [-]
South Korea has some very specific (and unusually harsh) laws around deepfakes. I was under the impression that it was only about impersonating people, but apparently it’s broader.
msh 34 minutes ago [-]
I think many places, even without specific deepfake laws, would prosecute someone who used a fake image to mislead the police.
antiloper 24 minutes ago [-]
Need this in the west as well
jonnonz 45 minutes ago [-]
This is how the future will look!
Gigachad 50 minutes ago [-]
IMO you should be legally required to disclose that a video has been AI generated when you share it.
junaru 2 hours ago [-]
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concinds 1 hours ago [-]
Antisocial behavior should face consequences. I'm not Asian and I don't understand your mindset.
cwillu 2 hours ago [-]
I think a fine is a perfectly reasonable consequence.
nubg 2 hours ago [-]
Can you clarify what you mean by Asian mindset here? Trying to save face?
dilawar 1 hours ago [-]
Not OP. Indian here. I find [1] to be a perfect example.
This is not specific to Asia. or South Asia. Nothing about this is specific to Asia.
catcowcostume 1 hours ago [-]
How do we flag racism on HN?
cwillu 1 hours ago [-]
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keybored 38 minutes ago [-]
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dist-epoch 2 hours ago [-]
So you are saying authorities should ignore public posts unless they are specifically sent to them?
What if another citizen forwarded the image to the police, not knowing it was AI generated? Should it have been ignored because it was not made by the sender? Should it have been ignored because it was forwarded from a public post?
hsbauauvhabzb 2 hours ago [-]
Asian specifically? Westerners are just as bad if you look into that whole nation state influencing foreign elections thing.
kotaKat 2 hours ago [-]
"disrupting government work by deception" sounds like such a busywork charge here trying to do some heavy lifting. An absolutely tough, rough criminal out here...
jdw64 2 hours ago [-]
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There’s something hilariously poetic about a ~2,500 year old fable being relevant today, because of AI.
"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 intersection"
To cry wolf is to say there’s a wolf here when it’s actually located elsewhere. The AI photo said there was a wolf at a certain intersection when it was actually located elsewhere.
In fact crying wolf is doubly appropriate because it means disturbing an operation looking for a wolf.
¹ Following pronoun variant used in the fine article here.
This is misdirection while there is a wolf
Similar but different
Did they? The article says it's unclear as to their intent.
> Authorities did not specify if the man had intentionally sent the photo to authorities during their search or simply shared it online.
Willfully diverting limited public service resources, that might potentially be assigned to saving someone's life or health?
Practically a social DoS
The only reason you are seeing this right now is because it has AI in the title.
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?
If Tesla (insert any car manufacturer you hate) ran over a kid I'd like to see the title say it, instead of "Tesla fined for violating traffic laws."
[1] waiting for some example where fool policemen where outsmarted with simple tricks /s
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?
https://m.wikitree.co.kr/articles/1132213
The zoo provides a controlled environment needed to restore the species.
You could adjust the firmware of a wildlife tag to start transmitting location every 10 minutes when the animal leaves a geo-fence.
[1] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/fir-against-reporter-...
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What if another citizen forwarded the image to the police, not knowing it was AI generated? Should it have been ignored because it was not made by the sender? Should it have been ignored because it was forwarded from a public post?