Starship Entertainment Apologizes for Staff Sharing Deepfake of An Yujin
Jan 16, 2025
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Starship Entertainment (hereinafter referred to as Starship) bowed its head on the 15th, saying, `We sincerely apologize to our artist An Yujin and fans who must have been deeply hurt by the grave negligence of our staff in charge of Chinese SNS on the 9th.'
Starship said, "We inform you that the incident was identified as a result of our negligence in management, and that we have taken the highest level of severe disciplinary action against the employee and excluded him from the relevant duties.""We will also thoroughly reorganize our internal management system to prevent such unsavory events from happening again in the future." he said.
Starship, which also apologized to Ahn Yu-jin, said "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 in this regard."," he added.
On the 9th, Starship's official account of China's SNS Weibo posted a photo of An Yujin's sexual harassment made of deepfakes (AI-based composites), which was controversial.
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Hello.
Starship Entertainment.
We sincerely apologize to our artist An Yujin 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 An Yujin, 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.
wjlee@sportschosun.com
