Starship shares I.V. Ahn Yu-jin Deepfake photo, and employees in charge of apology will be severely punished (Full Story)
Jan 16, 2025
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Starship announced on the 15th that `We sincerely apologize to our artist Ahn Yu-jin and fans who must have been deeply hurt by the grave negligence of our staff in charge of social media in China on the 9th.'
The incident was then identified as a problem arising from our negligence of management, and the highest level of severe disciplinary action was taken against the employee and excluded from related work. In addition, we will thoroughly overhaul our internal management system to prevent such unsavory events from happening again in the future," he said.
Starship also sincerely apologizes to the artist, Ahn Yu-jin, and promises to do its best to recover the damage caused by this. "The company is taking continuous legal action against the spread of false information and slander related to the artist, and we will do our best to prevent further damage from spreading."I promised.
Earlier, Ahn Yu-jin's AI composite was uploaded to the official account of Starship China, sparking controversy. Starship immediately deleted the post in question and apologized.
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Hello.
Starship Entertainment.
We sincerely apologize to our artist Ahn Yu-jin and fans who must have been deeply hurt by the grave negligence of our staff in charge of social media in China on the 9th.
We would like to inform you that this case has been identified as a problem arising from our negligence in management, and that we have taken the highest level of severe disciplinary action against the employee and excluded it from related work.
In addition, we will thoroughly reorganize our internal management system to prevent such unsavory events from happening again in the future.
We also sincerely apologize to artist Ahn Yu-jin, and we promise to do our best to recover the damage caused by this.
The company is taking continuous legal action against the spread of false information and slander related to artists, and we will do our best to prevent further damage from spreading.
Once again, we deeply apologize for the disappointment and concern our fans must have felt, and we will do our best to take the lessons learned from this work seriously and to move forward to a more mature company and restore trust again.
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