Hong Jin-young, who temporarily stopped her activities due to the controversy about plagiarism, appeared on the air again.
On the 14th, SBS’New Year’s Special Century Confrontation AI vs. Humans’ was decorated with audio montage AI and composition AI, and Hong Jin-young appeared on the air without being edited, drawing attention.
Prior to the broadcast, the production crew opened a statement through subtitles, saying, “After the recording was completed, there was a case where the performer Hong Jin-young dropped off from all broadcasts due to plagiarism of the thesis. The production crew had a lot of thoughts about broadcasting the convenience of the composition.”
The production crew expressed a frustrating feeling, “To discard the recording, the efforts of the AI developers and composers who are the real protagonists of this program for six months are in vain.”
The production crew said, “We want to broadcast by minimizing the amount of Hong Jin-young. We have deleted all the 15 minutes of Hong Jin-young’s appearances, excluding the inevitable proceedings and singing (reducing the song to verse 1),” asking viewers for understanding.
On this day, in’New Year’s Special Century Confrontation AI vs. Humans’, Hong Jin-young visited a composer AI developer or performed’Telepathy’ and’Love is 24 Hours’ to find songs made by AI.
The production crew said through subtitles after the Hong Jin-young stage, “These songs will be released as sound sources for composer AI and Kim Do-il. Mr. Hong Jin-young has no plans for any activity with these songs, and he has announced that he will donate all the performance fees and profits from the sound sources.” .
Meanwhile, Hong Jin-young’s master’s thesis at Chosun University in 2009,’A Study on the Trend of Cultural Contents Industry through Hallyu’, was caught up in plagiarism. The Chosun University side said, “Hong Jin-young will be finalized as plagiarism.”
Accordingly, videos related to Hong Jin-young, such as broadcasters as well as Gyeonggi local currency promotional videos, were converted to private or deleted.