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Law / South Korea

Public Official Election Act, Article 82-8 (election campaigns using deepfake video)

Public Official Election Act, Articles 82-8, 255(5) and 261(3)

In force.

An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.

Obligation class
Prohibition, Content labelling
Audit expectation
none
Setting the rule reaches
Elections

What it requires

  • Do not produce, edit, distribute, screen or post a deepfake, meaning an AI-made virtual sound, image or video that is hard to distinguish from the real one, for election campaigning from 90 days before election day through election day.
  • At any other time, label a deepfake you produce, edit, distribute, screen or post for election campaigning, as the National Election Commission Rules prescribe, so that people clearly recognize it as virtual information made with AI.

These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.

What it makes you log

Logging duty

Article 82-8 bans election-campaign deepfakes in the 90 days before an election and requires a label at other times. It states no duty to create, keep or later produce a log or record.

Kind
None
As of

What this law does

Drafted with AI

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Research summary

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No one may produce, edit, distribute, screen or post an AI-made virtual sound, image or video that is hard to distinguish from the real one for election campaigning from 90 days before election day through election day. Outside that period, anyone who produces, edits, distributes, screens or posts such material for election campaigning must label it, as the National Election Commission Rules prescribe, so that people clearly recognize it as virtual information made with AI.

A violation of the 90-day ban is punishable by imprisonment of up to seven years or a fine of 10 million to 50 million won. Omitting the label outside the 90-day period is subject to an administrative fine of up to 10 million won.

When LexLint raises it

When your app profile says your app generates audio with AI, generates images with AI or generates video with AI.

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