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An unverified video purportedly from the Blackpink member’s Summer Sonic performance has renewed concern over AI-manipulated sexual content targeting K-pop stars.
A viral clip allegedly showing Blackpink’s Jennie having a wardrobe malfunction has sparked online controversy.
The viral footage purports to show Jennie dancing energetically during a performance when her top shifts, briefly exposing parts of her anatomy.
The video is allegedly from Jennie’s performance at the Summer Sonic 2026 music festival in Tokyo on Friday. The girl group member headlined Summer Sonic and performed in both the Tokyo and Osaka legs of the festival.
As the clip spread online, some users reacted with suspicion and anger, leaving comments such as “This looks fake — probably AI,” “Take this down,” and “Have some decency.”
If the footage circulating online is deemed an AI-manipulated “deepfake” video made without the artist’s consent, even people who watch it — let alone those who generated the content — can be punished in Korea, according to the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment of Sexual Crimes.
Under the act — revised in October 2024 to strengthen penalties for deepfakes that use a person’s face, body or voice without consent in a way that may cause sexual shame — people who make such videos could face up to seven years in prison or a fine of up to 50 million won ($35,400).
The law also calls for three years in prison or a fine of up to 30 million won for anyone who possesses, purchases, saves or views such material.
K-pop stars have increasingly been targeted by AI-manipulated content.
The number of sexually explicit deepfake videos featuring K-pop stars increased fourfold from a year earlier, based on the Korea Communications Standards Commission’s report in 2024.
The Wall Street Journal also reported in 2024, citing a report by U.S. cybersecurity firm Security Hero on the state of deepfakes in 2023, that “eight of the 10 individuals most frequently targeted by deepfake pornography were K-pop singers.”
BY KIM HA-YOON, SHIN WOO-JIN [kim.hayoon1@joongang.co.kr]
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