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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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[–] rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour ago

Has he made any comment about the massive data center increasing the cost of living there yet? /gen

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 hours ago

Based. Those things will only get pricier.

[–] Minimac@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago

Way to go, Mayor Mamdani!

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 30 points 4 hours ago

unfortunately we live in times where saying "we're getting rid of this thing that no one ever asked for and never does anything good" is unusual.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 35 points 7 hours ago

Based. Good to see him going for common sense easy issues to keep people engaged while he works on the harder to tackle issues.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 26 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I asked why NYC had the shittiest mayor a year or so ago... Now I'm wondering why CA doesn't have one this good.

To be fair, we did at one point... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_Max_II?wprov=sfla1

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 hours ago

furiously reading through the handbook

...There's no rule that says...

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 163 points 16 hours ago

It feels ridiculous I have to say this, but it feels so good to hear about a politician just immediately saying "oh yeah, we needed to figure out where to make cuts, and these shitty AI chat bots seemed like an obvious place to start."

[–] itistime@infosec.pub 93 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Adams is a dickhole collaborator. I’m surprised the contract was only around $600k. How much so you think Adams got on top?

I wish Mamdani the best. There’s so much happening to be able to ingest it all, but so far he seems genuine. My natural glare of “what SHIT are you up to!??” has so far yielded nothing; Good. More!

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 hours ago

nothing; Good

A semicolon saves the day.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 160 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Wild that a politician deciding to terminate an application (and its associated contract) because the application doesn't actually work as intended seems so odd.

But I like it.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 24 points 16 hours ago

Yes! It is so sad this seems like such a bold move, but we've just become so fucking conditioned to bullshit politicians gaslighting us about why everybody else is just going to have to go without in order to keep giving handouts to the most entitled and useless pieces of crap just because they're already wealthy.

Why? Allegedly because they generate more money... But do they really? Have they ever?

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