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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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[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 hours ago

Based. Those things will only get pricier.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 34 points 6 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.

[–] Minimac@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 hours ago

Way to go, Mayor Mamdani!

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 37 points 9 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.

[–] rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net 0 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 27 points 13 hours ago (2 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

[–] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 27 minutes ago

Maximus Mighty-Dog Mueller II

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 hours ago

furiously reading through the handbook

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

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 170 points 18 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."

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 163 points 22 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.

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[–] itistime@infosec.pub 95 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 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!

[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 1 points 10 minutes ago

Just the fact that he added Lina Khan to his team says so much about him.

In a just world Khan would be a prominent political figure on her own, but she'll do good things in this position.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 hours ago

nothing; Good

A semicolon saves the day.

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