A ChatGPT user was reportedly detained by Chinese police recently for allegedly employing the AI-powered chatbot to fabricate a false news story about a train accident that never happened. It is one of the first enforcement actions under a Chinese law that regulates AI-generated "deepfakes," which are digital images, videos, and other media that appear to be real but have been fabricated. A man identified only by his surname, Hong, used ChatGPT to create a fake news article about a crash that allegedly resulted in the deaths of nine construction workers in the northwest Chinese province of Gansu, according to