The article says:

“Authorities are investigating him for disrupting government work by deception, an offence that carries up to five years in prison or a maximum fine of 10 million Korean won ($6,700; £5,000)”

Somewhat harsher than the UK at least, where “wasting police time” would only get you six months or around a £2500 fine.

Nay, poor BBC journalism has been around for a while, now.

Antisocial behavior should face consequences. I'm not Asian and I don't understand your mindset.

I think a fine is a perfectly reasonable consequence.

Can you clarify what you mean by Asian mindset here? Trying to save face?

How do we flag racism on HN?

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?

Asian specifically? Westerners are just as bad if you look into that whole nation state influencing foreign elections thing.

"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...

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