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Why This Guy Was Arrested for Making an AI Photo of a Wolf

A South Korean man was arrested after allegedly posting a fake image of an escaped wolf that emergency crews briefly believed was real.

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Hollywood’s lack of originality is starting to bleed into real life. According to a BBC report, a South Korean man was arrested for his 2020s AI reboot of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, after sharing an AI-generated picture of a wolf roaming the streets of Daejeon. The crime? The wolf, a real zoo escapee named Neukgu, wasn’t actually there.

Neukgu is a two-year-old wolf and part of an effort to reintroduce the species to South Korea. He escaped his enclosure on April 8. Authorities deployed drones for aerial coverage, deployed emergency crews on the ground, and told the public to........

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