The suspect, identified only as Hong, was arrested in northern China's Gansu province and is accused of violating the country's new anti-AI guidelines, which prohibit the use of AI to produce misleading information. The case was exposed last Monday (8) by the Chinese newspaper South China Morning Post and reflected by the specialized website The Verge.
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The man's arrest marks one of the first arrests under China's new guidelines, which aim to curb the spread of misinformation online. According to authorities, the Chinese man used ChatGPT to rewrite existing news articles and then post them online to earn money through internet traffic.
According to an investigation by the South China Morning Post, the false news was viewed more than 15 thousand times.
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Although China has banned the use of ChatGPT, the man used a VPN network to circumvent the system and create fake content and publish it on a website owned by Baidu.
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Now, the accused could face a prison sentence of five to 10 years. This is the first case recorded since the anti-AI law was regularized in the country.
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