In a first, Chinese police arrested a person for allegedly using ChatGPT to generate fake news of a train crash and disseminate it on-line. According to northwestern Gansu province police, a suspect surnamed Hong were detained for ‘the use of synthetic intelligence generation to concoct fake and untrue facts’.
The incident got here to light while the cyber division of a county police bureau spotted the faux information article claiming the death of nine people in a neighborhood teach twist of fate on April 25, the Hong Kong-based totally South China Morning Post mentioned on Monday.The cybersecurity officials in Kongtong county determined the thing simultaneously published by means of extra than 20 debts on Baijiahao, a weblog-fashion platform run by Chinese search engine giant Baidu. The testimonies had acquired extra than 15,000 clicks by the point they came to government’ attention, it stated.
The Gansu public protection department said Hong changed into suspected of the crime of “selecting quarrels and scary trouble”, a charge that generally includes a most sentence of 5 years. But in instances which are deemed specifically intense, offenders can be jailed for 10 years and given additional consequences, the Post stated.
This is the first time the general public has been made privy to an arrest with the aid of Chinese government after Beijing’s first provisions to adjust using ‘deepfake’ technology officially took impact in January, it said.
The police stated they traced the origins of the item to a organization owned by way of the suspect Hong, which operated non-public media systems registered in Shenzhen in Guangdong province in southern China.
Some 10 days later a police crew searched Hong’s domestic and his laptop and detained him.