[Daeryun Newsletter] Casual ChatGPT Conversations Becoming 'Criminal Evidence'?

Kyeonggi Ilbo

According to data from the Korean National Police Agency, the amount of voice phishing damage increased about 47%, from 854.5 billion won in 2024 to 1.2578 trillion won the following year. The number of incidents also rose 12% over the same period, and as criminal methods have grown more sophisticated, cases are emerging that go beyond simple financial harm to people becoming implicated in crimes without even realizing it.

KBC Gwangju Broadcasting

In January, the Chuncheon District Prosecutors' Office issued a decision not to indict, for insufficient evidence, a man in his 20s, identified as A, who had been suspected of aiding a violation of the Act on the Control of Narcotics (psychotropic substances). A had been suspected of obtaining prescriptions for the sleep aid Stilnox (zolpidem) on two occasions in 2019 and 2020 and providing them to B, a senior from his pharmacy school.

KBC Gwangju Broadcasting

On the 26th of last month, the Seoul Western District Prosecutors' Office issued a decision not to indict a person in their 30s, identified as A, who had been referred to the prosecution on fraud charges. A, an internet broadcaster, had been suspected of defrauding a viewer of their channel, identified as B, of money and goods worth more than 200 million won in 2024 by demanding sponsorship under the pretext of marriage.