Police in China have arrested a man who allegedly used the ChatGPT chatbot, which is banned in the country, to create and spread fake news. It has been reported CNN.
According to the channel, the service was used by a suspect named Hong to spread the news about the train crash and then spread it online for profit.
It was stated that the note about the disaster was viewed approximately 15 thousand times, but the man was captured by the police. On May 5, he was interrogated in Dongguan City, south of Guangdong Province.
According to law enforcement officials, Hong’s actions led to conflicts and caused misunderstandings in society. This was the first criminal case involving the use of artificial intelligence in China.
Former Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak expression The belief, in the hands of unscrupulous people, that productive neural networks like ChatGPT can lead to an increase in network fraud and disinformation. He said that for AI to become a safer technology, the government must impose liability for fake posts produced by algorithms.
Prior to that, Craig Martell, Pentagon Chief Digital Officer and Artificial Intelligence judicial chatbot ChatGPT “an excellent tool for spreading disinformation.”