Chinese AI user faces jail for fake news
It is the first such case since the country tightened rules on content generated by artificial intelligence.
A man has been arrested in China for using ChatGPT to fabricate a news story about a fatal train crash.
It is the first such case since the country tightened rules on content generated by artificial intelligence.
The man, identified by the family name Hong, used the AI-enabled chatbot to create a news story claiming that a train had crashed into rail workers, killing nine in the northwest province of Gansu.
The man is alleged to have published the article on April 25 through 21 accounts on the website Baidu, the country’s biggest search engine.
Internet police in Pingliang ruled it to be fake. By then, the story had been viewed 15,000 times, police said. Hong is charged with fabricating misinformation and spreading it online. If convicted, he could be jailed for up to five years.
In April, the authorities proposed rules on AI content with demands that it should abide by socialist core values.
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