A young man born in 1995 used AI to write a "short essay" and earned 85000 yuan from frying soda ash, but was fined 485000 yuan According to Beating monitoring, the Sichuan Securities Regulatory Bureau has imposed penalties on individual investor Sun Zheyuan. He used AI to generate 17 fake articles on the production of soda ash in batches and published them on the Baidu Baijia account "DiKan". During the dissemination period, he traded soda ash futures and earned a profit of 85028.85 yuan after deducting transaction fees. Regulatory authorities confiscated all profits and imposed a fine of 400000 yuan, resulting in a total confiscation of approximately 485000 yuan. These 17 articles revolve around two pieces of false news. Four articles claim that a certain soda ash enterprise's boiler has malfunctioned and the production line has been shut down for at least six months; Another 13 articles claim that the Alashan earthquake caused damage to factories. One day after the publication of two batches of articles, a total of 8794 views were read. Some investors have sought verification from listed companies, while others have reported to regulatory platforms. Sun Zheyuanshen argued that the article did not have a substantial impact and that futures profits were not related to false news. He also claimed to have long-term mental illness. The Sichuan Securities Regulatory Bureau rejected all claims, stating that their subjective intent was obvious and they failed to prove that they were unable to identify or control their behavior at the time of the incident. The regulation also clarifies that the profits from futures trading during the period of disseminating false information can be directly recognized as illegal gains. [Original link]