Korean Survey: Over 80% of teenagers and adults are deeply concerned about AI online violence

DeepFlowTech · 2026-03-30T05:57:11+00:00

Surveys show that 89.4% of teenagers and 87.6% of adults believe that AI-driven cyberbullying is a serious problem, especially deepfake videos and false information. Teenagers are concerned about the low barrier to content creation, while adults focus on ongoing harm. By 2025, 42.3% of teenagers and 15.8% of adults have experienced cyberbullying.

DeepFlowTech

2026-03-30 05:57:11

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Deep Tide TechFlow message, March 30, according to Yonhap News Agency, the Korea Communications Commission (KMCC) carried out a survey from September to November of last year involving 9,296 middle and elementary school students and 7,521 adults aged 19 to 69. The results showed that 89.4% of teenagers and 87.6% of adults believe that AI-driven online abuse is a serious issue, mainly including forms such as deepfake video and the spread of false information.

The survey showed that teenagers were most concerned about the content generation threshold for AI tools being too low, while adults were more worried about the lasting harm that AI-generated content may cause. In terms of actual victimization, in 2025, 42.3% of teenagers had experienced online abuse (down 0.5 percentage points year over year); the victimization rate among adults was 15.8% (up 2.3 percentage points year over year). Strangers were the main perpetrators, and text messages and social media were the primary channels of abuse.

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