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Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap (themarkup.org)
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In a press conference this week on New York City’s $12 billion budget gap, Mayor Zohran Mamdani zeroed in on the previous administration’s artificial intelligence chatbot as one of “a number of different things we’re going to pursue for savings.”

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[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 26 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

It was costing the administration around half a million dollars.

How? Surely this was put in place as a cost cutting measure. I mean, terminate it, sure. Pay actual humans. I just have questions.

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago

Because Eric Adams was a terrible mayor who clearly used the mayoral office to pass lucrative contracts to his friends and enrich himself.

At least thats what his chumminess with Trump and his bribery scandal would suggest to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigations_into_the_Eric_Adams_administration

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 43 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Often the promised cost savings never materialise, because when the chatbot fucks up, it's humans who need to clean up the mess.