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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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[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 32 points 3 weeks ago

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 3 weeks ago

furiously reading through the handbook

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

[-] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

Maximus Mighty-Dog Mueller II

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