Genaro Garcia Luna, Mexico’s former top law enforcement official in charge of waging war against the country’s notorious narco terrorist organizations, was convicted in U.S. federal court on Tuesday of working with the very organizations that he was supposed to be fighting.

Garcia Luna, who, as Secretary of Public Security, had direct control over Mexico’s Federal Police Force, was convicted in a federal courtroom in Brooklyn on all counts of a superseding indictment that charged him with engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise that includes six drug-related violations, international cocaine distribution conspiracy, conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine, conspiracy to import cocaine, and making false statements, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. Garcia Luna faces 20 years to life in prison.

Prosecutors proved at trial that Garcia Luna used his official position to assist the country’s most prolific and notorious drug cartel: the Sinaloa cartel. Garcia Luna sold out his country for millions of dollars in cash payments from the cartel. His actions assisting the cartel included facilitating safe passage for the Cartel’s drug shipments, providing sensitive law enforcement information about investigations into the Cartel, and helping the Cartel attack rival drug cartels, thereby facilitating the importation of multi-ton quantities of cocaine and other drugs into the United States, the DOJ said.

Convicted narco-traffickers testified against Garcia Luna during trial, revealing that he worked for them for nearly the entire time that he was in charge of what The New York Times described as Mexico’s equivalent of the FBI. The narco-traffickers confirmed that they paid Garcia Luna sums of cash as large as $14 million in exchange for his services.

“Garcia Luna, who once stood at the pinnacle of law enforcement in Mexico, will now live the rest of his days having been revealed as a traitor to his country and to the honest members of law enforcement who risked their lives to dismantle drug cartels,” stated Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. “It is unconscionable that the defendant betrayed his duty as Secretary of Public Security by greedily accepting millions of dollars in bribe money that was stained by the blood of Cartel wars and drug-related battles in the streets of the United States and Mexico, in exchange for protecting those murderers and traffickers he was solemnly sworn to investigate.”

The report noted that one topic rarely was mentioned during trial: What U.S. officials knew about Garcia Luna’s criminal activities while he worked closely with U.S. officials, including top Obama administration officials like former Attorney General Eric Holder and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Former Democrat President Bill Clinton’s administration struck a deal with the Sinaloa cartel in 2000 that allowed the cartel to smuggle billions of dollars into the U.S. in exchange for selling out rival cartels.

A leading SciFi/Fantasy fiction magazine is closing submissions because of an avalanche of artificial intelligence-generated spam.

Neil Clarke, the publisher and editor-in-chief of the award-winning Clarkesworld Magazine, said in a Twitter thread Tuesday that he would temporarily close the magazine to new submissions because of the sheer amount of poor quality content written by AI chatbots and other software. Clarke lamented that there are no easy solutions to what could become a growing problem.

“Submissions are currently closed. It shouldn’t be hard to guess why,” Clarke wrote Monday.

Clarke gave more details on the situation Tuesday morning. “We aren’t closing the magazine,” he wrote. “Closing submissions means that we aren’t considering stories from authors at this time. We will reopen, but have not set a date.”

“We don’t have a solution for the problem,” Clarke continued on Twitter. “We have some ideas for minimizing it, but the problem isn’t going away. Detectors are unreliable. Pay-to-submit sacrifices too many legit authors. Print submissions are not viable for us. Various third-party tools for identity confirmation are more expensive than magazines can afford and tend to have regional holes. Adopting them would be the same as banning entire countries. We could easily implement a system that only allowed authors that had previously submitted work to us. That would effectively ban new authors, which is not acceptable. They are an essential part of this ecosystem and our future.”

Clarke identified most of the problems stemmed from outside writers. “The people causing the problem are from outside the SF/F community,” he said. “Largely driven in by ‘side hustle’ experts making claims of easy money with ChatGPT. They are driving this and deserve some of the disdain shown to the AI developers. Our guidelines already state that we don’t want ‘AI’ written or assisted works. They don’t care. A checkbox on a form won’t stop them. They just lie.”

In a separate blog post on his website, Clarke pointed out that the number of plagiarized submissions began to tick up at the end of 2022, and have surged dramatically in 2023 after AI chatbots became more popular. A graph on the post showed that less than 25 submissions per month were rejected and banned for plagiarism in October; that number increased to 50 by December, then surged all the way to 350 by February 15, 2023. An updated graph shows that the number has spiked to more than 500 as of February 20.

Clarke said that these AI submissions have obvious patterns, but refused to give examples because he did not want to help the violators get better at avoiding detection or paint legitimate authors with a broad brush. He also admitted that several stories that were rejected probably evaded AI detectors, or resulted from editors erring on the side of caution. Clarke also noted that other editors of fiction platforms have experienced similar problems; the phenomenon appears to be mostly aimed at high-profile markets that offer more money per word.

Plagiarism in the arts follows multiple instances of plagiarism in education. Last week, a Florida high school said that students in a prestigious academic program were cheating on their essays using ChatGPT. In December, a Furman University philosophy professor said that AI chatbots are the future of plagiarism.