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2023-07-05 16:43:10Ecns.cn Editor : Zhang Dongfang
(ECNS) -- Shaoxing Municipal Public Security Bureau of Zhejiang Province uncovered a case involving ChatGPT to produce fake videos to spread rumors, officials said Wednesday.
The police of Shangyu District discovered an online video of a fire in an industrial park on June 2, with increasing views over a short time period. Officials later confirmed it was a rumor after an investigation revealed a technology company outside Zhejiang had committed the crime. Local police rushed to the crime scene on Wednesday and arrested three suspects.
After investigation, Shaoxing police found the gang had illegally purchased a batch of video accounts since May 2023 to use ChatGPT to create fake content for profit.
Up to now, the suspects have illegally purchased more than 1,500 video accounts and released over 3,000 fake videos. All there have been charged with the crime of seeking trouble. The case remains under investigation.
Shaoxing police reminded people that cyberspace has never been a lawless place and that netizens should consciously regulate their personal online activity, distrust rumors, and jointly maintain order in cyberspace.
Electric wheelchairs become new means of transportation. This strange phenomenon cleverly utilizes the blank space of current traffic management regulations.
This must be attributed to increasingly stringent traffic management policies. Some cities plan to implement policies that prohibit the use of electric bicycles in urban areas, making electric wheelchairs a seemingly more convenient alternative.
Personal opinion: This matter is not something worth being happy about. The current traffic regulations seem to be designed to serve the automotive industry and give cars the maximum driving rights for this purpose. Unfortunately, the current number of cars far exceeds the carrying capacity of cities. For this reason, our dear government has chosen to let those who do not use cars make way for those who drive them.
Carcentric urban planning is bad anyway, I pity that the Chinese City planners are somewhat to dependent on angloamerican urbanist concepts
Your "dear government" idiotic approach to this situation isn't exclusive but rather a problem worldwide especially in most, if not all leading western governments and that includes Canada, America, Germany (where the use of P.E.V.'s are banned and subject to police arrest, U.K. France).
Your government's action isn't dissimilar to the equally idiotic approaches taken by their western freedom, democratic loving governments some of your contemporaries look upto with glowing eyes.
I was hoping that local government in China would be far more PEV friendly and open and accepting of people that would rather commute in such vehicles rather than having roads clogged up by automobiles.
For contextual comparison, here's a brief report regarding the use of P.E.V's like e-scooters in America. It's useful to compare and contrast what countries in the leading economies of western countries especially the U.S. (since a lot of Chinese see America as some kind of model to be emulated) handle challenges in trying to incorporate novel ways of transportation that conflicts with existing structures and vehicle that's monopolized by the automobiles.
China has to understand that emulating US policies in city design, it will always remain 1 generation behind the US. China understood to be independent in science, now this must permeate through society and also reach urban planners.
The major problem is that China also has a large vested interest in pushing automobiles hard. Cars will be, or is already, a massive pillar of the Chinese export and domestic economy. Internationally speaking, automobile export industry is the crown jewel of all affluent industries.
So scaling back on cars might be a no-go, even though many studies suggest public transport within megacities produces better outcomes.
It is not as simple as "cars bad" and "public transport good". Keeping the prestige of being a dominant automobile power like Japan or Germany is extremely important for China.
Sounds interesting but given its location(too far away) its sounds really useless, unless China knows more about resources in the south pole?