Hong Kong’s Correctional Services Department recently tried something a little different — using an AI-generated K-pop-style girl group in an attempt to discourage drug use. Spoiler alert: It did not go as intended. 

The video, titled Obsession: The Sugar-Coated Trap, was posted on the department’s social media accounts last Friday (Jun 26).

Styled like a campy music video, it featured four pretty AI-generated idols dressed in colourful stage outfits. Each character was named after a different drug — Weedy, Coke, Icy and Little E — representing cannabis, cocaine, crystal meth and etomidate respectively.