China arrests ChatGPT user who faked deadly train crash story


The man, surnamed Hong, ‘exploited modern technological methods to fabricate fake information, and proceeded to spread it on social media’, the public security bureau of northern Gansu province said in a press release posted on WeChat. — AP

Chinese authorities have detained a man for using ChatGPT to write fake news articles, in what appears to be one of the first instances of an arrest related to misuse of artificial intelligence in the nation.

The man, surnamed Hong, “exploited modern technological methods to fabricate fake information, and proceeded to spread it on social media,” the public security bureau of northern Gansu province said in a press release posted on WeChat.

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