That led to more users sharing suggestions on how they could turn Luda into a 'sex slave.'

Problems began to crop up almost immediately, however, after some male users began having conversations revolving around sex with the robot, the Korea Herald reported. That helped Luda to attract a user base of around 400,000 people within weeks of its launch. The deep learning technology behind the service drew on more than 10 billion messages shared on social media between real couples in Korea, enabling it to engage in conversations that feel natural and realistic to users. The interactive service operated on Facebook Messenger and allowed users to have conversations that were either instigated by Luda or to which the character replies.Īnd while the system was a smart robot, Scatter Lab decided to give it the face of a 20-year-old female student. Scatter Lab, the company behind the Lee Luda chatbot, which was effectively hijacked by users, announced on January 11 that it was suspending the service, just 19 days after it was launched. If the discussion on the ethics attached to this type of technology has not yet commenced, the problems that it can cause are already much in evidence. 'Perhaps at the moment it is not such a big issue, but I do believe it is a more important matter for younger generations, those in their 20s and 30s, who have to be sensitive to the ways in which technology is used and can be abused.' 'The public demands more and greater technological advances, but there are unquestionably problems that need to be addressed,' said Park. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 'Part of the challenge is related to the ethics that are involved in the digital transformation of our society,' he added. 'Technology is both a blessing and a challenge in every society, so I think that is also the case here in Korea,' said Dr Park Saing-in, an economist at Seoul National University. There are some who say it is merely the exploitation of the deceased to turn a profit for those who own the rights to their music today. The petition was started just before a Seoul-based company was forced to pull the plug on an artificial intelligence-driven 'chatbot' service after it started swearing, sending out sexual comments and described lesbians as 'disgusting' and 'creepy.' Discussion of ethicsĮqually, there have been calls for a discussion of the ethics surrounding what amounts to the resurrection of famous Korean singers who have died but are being brought 'back to life' to perform at concerts through AI technology and holographic images. More than 375,000 people have signed an online petition on the website for the presidential Blue House demanding that the government take action against 'deepfake' pornography that sees the faces of famous Korean actresses morphed onto indecent images that are then circulated online. South Korean society is discovering, however, that all that tech at the public's fingertips also comes at a price. South Korea is one of the most technologically advanced and adept societies in the world, consistently ranking in the top positions in terms of mobile phone penetration, internet speeds and the consumption of online media, games and apps.

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