一 | LOS ANGELES -- A U.S. Navy sailor charged with providing sensitive military information to China pleaded guilty in Los Angeles on Tuesday to conspiring with a foreign intelligence officer and receiving a bribe, federal prosecutors said. Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao, 26, originally pleaded not guilty when he was charged Aug. 4. The Justice Department alleges that Zhao, based at Naval Base Ventura County, north of Los Angeles, conspired to collect nearly $15,000 in bribes from a Chinese intelligence officer in exchange for information, photos and videos of involving Navy exercises, operations and facilities.The information included plans for a large-scale U.S. military exercise in the Indo-Pacific region, which detailed the location and timing of naval force movements, prosecutors said. The Chinese officer told Zhao the information was needed for maritime economic research to inform investment decisions, according to the indictment.Zhao, who also went by the name Thomas Zhao and held a U.S. security clearance, “admitted he engaged in a corrupt scheme to collect and transmit sensitive U.S. military information to the intelligence officer in violation of his official duties,” the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a news release Tuesday. Zhao, of Monterey Park, California, faces a statutory maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. He has been in custody since his arrest on Aug. 3.Zhao was charged on the same day as another California-based Navy sailor who is accused of similar crimes. But they are separate cases, and federal officials haven't said if the two were courted or paid by the same Chinese intelligence officer as part of a larger scheme. Jinchao Wei, a 22-year-old assigned to the San Diego-based USS Essex, is charged with providing detailed information on the weapons systems and aircraft aboard the Essex and other amphibious assault ships that act as small aircraft carriers. He pleaded not guilty in federal court in San Diego. Last week, a former U.S. Army intelligence officer was charged in Seattle with attempting to provide classified defense information to the Chinese security services during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sgt. Joseph Daniel Schmidt, 29, was arrested Oct. 6 at San Francisco International Airport as he arrived from Hong Kong, where he had been living since March 2020, the Justice Department said. A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging him with retention and attempted delivery of national defense information. U.S. District Court records in Seattle did not yet list an attorney representing Schmidt on the charges, and neither the U.S. attorney’s office nor the federal public defender’s office had information about whether he had a lawyer.An FBI declaration filed in the case quoted Schmidt as telling his sister in an email that he left the U.S. because he disagreed with unspecified aspects of American policy.。
二 | 8 月 25 日消息，据美联社报道，随着生成式 AI 快速发展并开始威胁音乐人的生计，当地时间 25 日（今天），澳大利亚唱片业协会（ARIA）决定禁止完全由 AI 生成的歌曲进入官方排行榜。新规出台前，一首由澳大利亚制作人利用 AI 生成人声和鼓点重新制作了麦当娜的名曲《Like a Prayer》，并连续 16 周跻身澳大利亚前 20 名，也让生成式 AI 在音乐行业中的地位成为争论焦点。这首歌今年 5 月一度升至澳大利亚单曲榜第 2 名，截至周二仍排在第 4 位。澳大利亚唱片业协会宣布，从下周一开始，完全由 AI 生成的歌曲将无法进入 ARIA 排行榜，但采用 AI 辅助制作的部分作品仍然可以上榜。根据新规，歌曲必须满足由人类创作、主唱、演奏主要乐器等要求，才能获得上榜资格。完全由 AI 生成的音乐也不能参加澳大利亚唱片行业重要奖项 ARIA 音乐奖。
三 | 能够上榜的音乐还必须使用合法的 AI 服务制作。目前，一些出现在流媒体平台上的音乐显然借助 AI 工具生成，而这些工具曾在未经授权的情况下使用音乐人的作品进行训练。据了解，澳大利亚的新规与国际唱片业协会今年 7 月公布的原则基本一致。国际唱片业协会规定，一首歌曲要进入官方排行榜，必须“主要由人类创作”。悉尼音乐学院作曲家兼讲师亚历克西斯 · 韦弗在接受澳大利亚广播公司采访时指出，AI 音乐引发的争论极其复杂，对很多音乐人来说也牵动强烈情绪，因此每个人都会有不同看法。韦弗认为，澳大利亚唱片业协会的新规“迈出了非常好的一步”，协会希望优先重视并珍视人类创造力。“在目前的环境下，完全避开 AI 工具可能很困难。但 AI 并非不能使用，关键是创作者仍然掌握主导权，并由自己作出最主要的创意决定。”相关阅读：。
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