From 3 hours to 6 minutes: How Seoul’s new AI shield protects victims of cyber crimes

Key Highlights

• A Quantum Leap in Speed City officials stated that the AI-integrated system has fundamentally altered the timeline of victim support.
• While human counsellors previously spent approximately three hours manually searching and reporting a single piece of illegal content, the AI completes the cycle, from detection to reporting, in just six minutes.
• This 30-fold increase in speed is critical in the digital age, where images can be mirrored across thousands of servers within hours.
• By drastically shortening the "window of exposure," the city aims to mitigate the long-term psychological trauma suffered by victims.
• Beyond Image Matching: The Tech Behind the Shield Unlike traditional "hash-matching" software, which requires an exact digital fingerprint of an original file to find copies, Seoul’s new AI utilises multi-modal deep learning.