An individual investor was fined 485,000 yuan for using AI to fabricate rumors for profit.

The Sichuan Securities Regulatory Bureau disclosed that Sun Zheyuan, a personal investor born in 1997, used AI to fabricate multiple false articles about soda ash production and publicly published them, which garnered nearly 9,000 views. During the dissemination period, he traded soda ash futures and made a profit of 85,000 yuan. The Sichuan Securities Regulatory Bureau confiscated his illegal gains and imposed a fine of 400,000 yuan, totaling approximately 485,000 yuan in penalties.