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 31 minutes 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 22 minutes 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 13 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 16 minutes ago [-]
Crying wolf is normally starting the operation while there isn‘t a wolf.
This is misdirection while there is a wolf
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kqp 4 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 35 minutes 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.
AussieWog93 13 minutes ago [-]
Yes, it's an interesting and novel thing about a topic many people here are interested in.
darkwater 3 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
christoff12 39 minutes ago [-]
I'm a little surprised zoo animals aren't chipped with some kind of beacon locator for incidents such as these.
ErroneousBosh 23 minutes ago [-]
What sort of size do you think that would be?
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Gigachad 11 minutes ago [-]
IMO you should be legally required to disclose that a video has been AI generated when you share it.
jonnonz 5 minutes ago [-]
This is how the future will look!
prmoustache 46 minutes 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?
spiffyk 41 minutes ago [-]
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 38 minutes 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?
junaru 1 hours ago [-]
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concinds 50 minutes ago [-]
Antisocial behavior should face consequences. I'm not Asian and I don't understand your mindset.
cwillu 57 minutes ago [-]
I think a fine is a perfectly reasonable consequence.
nubg 1 hours ago [-]
Can you clarify what you mean by Asian mindset here? Trying to save face?
dilawar 48 minutes 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 41 minutes ago [-]
How do we flag racism on HN?
cwillu 24 minutes ago [-]
You click the flag button, the same as any other objectionable/antisocial comment.
hsbauauvhabzb 53 minutes ago [-]
Asian specifically? Westerners are just as bad if you look into that whole nation state influencing foreign elections thing.
kotaKat 55 minutes 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 53 minutes ago [-]
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dist-epoch 51 minutes 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?
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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
The only reason you are seeing this right now is because it has AI in the title.
[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?
The zoo provides a controlled environment needed to restore the species.
[1] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/fir-against-reporter-...
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?