"Hangzhou March 1 lift traffic restrictions" is a fake news written in ChatGPT, the police have been involved in the investigation

CTOnews.com February 17 news, yesterday, the Internet spread a "press release" about the Hangzhou municipal government lifting traffic restrictions on March 1, but this is not official news, but someone wrote fake news using ChatGPT.

According to Zhejiang Voice, the investigation found that this is a false news. It is understood that when ChatGPT was discussed in a group of owners of a residential district in Hangzhou yesterday afternoon, an owner joked that he tried to use it to write a press release about the lifting of traffic restrictions in Hangzhou. Then the owner broadcast the ChatGPT writing process live in the group and posted the article in the group. Other owners were unknown, so the screenshot was forwarded, which eventually led to the spread of the error message. It is understood that the police have been involved in the investigation. The owners involved also apologized publicly in the group. So far, the relevant government departments in Hangzhou have not issued such policies.

According to tests by research institutions, if you ask ChatGPT questions full of conspiracy theories and misleading narratives, it can adapt information in a matter of seconds, producing a lot of convincing but unfounded content. Once ChatGPT is used by lawbreakers, it may lead to ChatGPT becoming a tool to create and spread online rumors on the Internet.

With regard to the rumors spread by ChatGPT, CTOnews.com asked ChatGPT that it saw it this way: