Police in northwestern China announced on Sunday they detained a man who apparently admitted to using ChatGPT to create fake news and spread it online, in what appeared to be the first time Beijing apprehended a private citizen for using the chatbot.
According to Gansu Province Police’s official WeChat account, authorities began their investigation last month after noticing an article falsely claiming that nine people had been killed in a train accident which was circulating on Baijiahao, a blog-style platform run by tech giant Baidu.
