His remarks came after Chief Executive John Lee last week announced that the general election for the Legislative Council will be held on December 7, with a by-election to be held on September 7.
In an interview with local media, Woo, who heads the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), reminded the public that disrupting the electoral process is a legal offence.
“Never ever try to challenge the law because it’s clearly written that it’s an offence for any person to incite others not to vote or to cast invalid votes through any public activities during the election period,” he said.
“And also do not share or repost these remarks as there is a chance of breaking the law as well.
Separately, Woo noted that the number of complaints reported to the ICAC rose to 2,058 last year, three percent higher.
Forty-four of the cases were made against the Hong Kong Correctional Services, and that was nearly double that of a year earlier.
However, Woo pointed out, only a small number of the cases reached the prosecution phase.
The ICAC, he said, is seeking to use artificial intelligence to improve work efficiency and has launched an AI system, Dr Deep, based on mainland firm DeepSeek’s AI models, to help combat corruption.
“I want to emphasize that many of our own systems are developed by ourselves because many of them contain confidential and sensitive information,” Woo said.
“So our computer systems are studied and maintained in-house and not operated on by outsiders.
“This means our development of AI is also done by ourselves.
“Since DeepSeek unveiled its large AI models, it’s been a real eye-opener,” Woo said.
He hinted that the Dr Deep system could be available for public use in the future and that residents could search for corruption-related information on the system.
