Authorities in northern Russia’s Khanty-Mansi autonomous district said they plan to release a homegrown version of ChatGPT to help local lawmakers draft new legislation, regional media reported Tuesday. “One of the duties officials have is to write laws. There are quite a lot of them,” Khanty-Mansi’s Deputy Governor Pavel Tsiporin was quoted as saying by the Vestinik news outlet. “Therefore, we came up with the idea to train a neural network model on our legislation so that it can help draft new bills and amend existing laws,” he added. Tsiporin said the envisioned AI language model is already…