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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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[–] itistime@infosec.pub 99 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 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 5 points 1 day 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 9 points 1 day ago

nothing; Good

A semicolon saves the day.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'm more concerned that he'll have an uphill battle against vested interests than anything he might do himself.

[–] itistime@infosec.pub 2 points 20 hours ago

Oh, absolutely! He will stumbling blocks thrown at him from every which way. And then his lack of progress will be pointed at by the propagandists: “look at this Democratic Socialist who did nothing! Blah blah muslim blah blah blah”