ChatGPT Accounts for 17% of Writing in Peer Reviews at AI Conferences

Recently, the Daye City People's Court in Hubei Province issued a verdict in a landmark case involving the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technology to write and profit from pornographic novels. Defendant Ke Mou was sentenced to ten months imprisonment and a fine of 5,000 yuan for the crime of producing, selling, and disseminating obscene materials for profit, and ordered to return his illegal gains. According to the prosecution, from November 2022 to March 2023, Ke Mou, a college-educated online literature author, used an AI program to write pornographic novels and published them on overseas pornographic websites, simultaneously...
Microsoft is testing a new AI-powered summarization feature within its Notepad app for Windows. Currently available in the Canary and Dev channels of the Windows Insider Program, this update aims to help users quickly grasp the core meaning of text. Users simply select the text they want summarized, right-click, and choose the 'Summarize' option. Notepad will then automatically generate a concise overview of the selected passage.
A recent study highlights significant issues with AI search engines handling news information. The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR)'s digital news lab tested eight AI tools with real-time search capabilities, revealing alarming results: over 60% of news queries yielded inaccurate answers. The study found considerable variation in error rates across different AI platforms, with Grok3 exhibiting a 94% error rate and ChatGPT Search reaching 67%. Even paid versions, such as Perplexity,
OpenAI has announced that the research preview of its AI agent, Operator, is now open to users aged 18 and over in Europe, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland. The feature is currently only available to Pro users with a $200 monthly subscription. According to OpenAI, the company plans to expand Operator functionality to Plus, Team, and Enterprise users after the initial testing period and integrate it directly into the ChatGPT platform. Previously, on February 2nd, 2025...