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Bloomberg / Low De Wei / May 9

The article about a deadly train crash — written using ChatGPT — was viewed more than 15,000 times before being removed. —LO

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Owen, Laura Hazard. "Chinese authorities arrested a ChatGPT user who faked news about a deadly train crash." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 9 May. 2023. Web. 25 Sep. 2023.

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Owen, L. (2023, May. 9). Chinese authorities arrested a ChatGPT user who faked news about a deadly train crash. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved September 25, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/chinese-authorities-arrested-a-chatgpt-user-who-faked-news-about-a-deadly-train-crash/

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Owen, Laura Hazard. "Chinese authorities arrested a ChatGPT user who faked news about a deadly train crash." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified May 9, 2023. Accessed September 25, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/chinese-authorities-arrested-a-chatgpt-user-who-faked-news-about-a-deadly-train-crash/.

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