China's ChatGPT Black Market Is Thriving

Yuxin Guo is a master's student studying at a Beijing University. For a few months, she had been following online discussions about ChatGPT, the generative AI tool that produces almost natural-sounding language in response to text prompts. One video she found on social media platform Weibo showed how college students in the US were using the technology to write research papers. In February, she finally decided to try it out for herself. "I got curious because so many people are talking about it," Guo says, "although not a lot of people seem to clearly know how to access it."