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...
