Fuck AI

Modern capitalism derives it's scarcity via artificial means such as legislation.

The only thing this does is restrict the means of information to the people of NYC. Have you used traditional web search for health/legal/etc. advice? Even pre-2015 if you didn't know what you're doing you would get the most unhinged, predatory, incorrect advice imaginable, but legislating away access wasn't going to make health information more correct, accurate, or equitable. It would've just further entrenched the predatory health/legal/etc. industry as the gatekeepers of that knowledge.

This is no different.

I understand the sentiment but I think this is too far of a pushback. Restricting access to information even though it may be inaccurate or misleading isn't the right answer. AI is a tool. I'd wager, force a prompt to specifically be visible whenever subjects break that. Essentially the cigerette equivelant "THIS PRODUCT KILLS YOU" but something like "AI RESPONSES TO MEDICAL INFORMATION SHOULD NOT BE TREATED AS ACCURATE."

I feel like this logic should of banned search engines since they could provide links to sites with misinformation.

I'm careful about laws, i ask for a summary then ask to cite the source for the relevant bits. I'm not asking for legal advice, I want to know what the letter of the law says. Google has always struggled with this.

Add edibility of wild plants to the list please

This is super dumb. People will just Google their questions instead, and get worse results.

Grok is this real?

I really think this is a bad idea these should really just be flagged, there's many situations where asking these questions in necessary and there's few if any other ways to get an answer

Or just require the AI to summarize and provide citations?

I started using Gemini, not because I like AI, but because Google search is next to useless now. Its pay to win.

I chose Gemini because it actually gives you the sources at the bottom of most queries it uses Google search to answer.

I don't trust its answers, because it often tries to give an answer instead of a summary. But I don't have to because I can go right to the sources it shares.

Maybe I'm just ignorant about this, but it feels a bit "gatekeepy" to outlaw answering questions about the law itself. Like... so I can't use an LLM to help do taxes? Or if I'm served a confusing legal document, I have to pay an expensive attorney to understand the legalese? I can't even just get a rough idea from an LLM first?

EDIT: Also I've literally had a professional accountant send me a ChatGPT conversation they had because they didn't know tax law well enough. I feel like if anything that should be outlawed. Professionals should actually have to know shit and know how to research primary sources.

I feel like finding and citing appropriate law cases would be a great way for AI to be used, especially because the bullshit legal-ese that surrounds everything in court cases is so spectacularly opaque and trivial that you have to pay out the nose just for someone to parse through all the bullshit... Like, lawyers shouldn't even be a thing you need unless it's for some really complicated case. The courtroom should be a place where an average citizen could speak for themselves.

Also, as someone who studied medicine... Do you know how often doctors will take a patients history, step outside the exam room, and then google shit? I don't want to imply that they don't know what they're doing, like, you need to study medicine to know what to google, BUT... they still be googling shit. I think AI could be trained to ask the same patient history questions that a nurse asks. Then using the answers to those questions, then they can provide some feedback, with a big ol disclaimer that it's NOT to be taken seriously, and you should consult with a physician.

New York State not New York City.

I don't know why Mamdani is pictured. I think it is because the proposal was introduced in the State Senate by Kisten Gonzalez who is a DSA member.

First look at that picture, I thought he was starting to grow a wild mullet

You're going to end up with AI that works for some people & not for others under these sorts of policies. I don't really think this is in the spirit of democratic socialism.

Had to call a strip club, fucking AI bot answers the phone. Thankfully they answered the door before I even had to talk to it.

Cue the first amendment arguments from the "corporations are people" crowd

What i don't like about this, is the ignorance towards every other field.

The ai is not allowed to tell you that you might have some illness but the LLM is allowed to vibe code the system that holds your medical data, or the software of the medical device that analyses your e.g. blood and provide the data to the doctor.

Systems and professions are interconnected. Chatgtp telling me that I have cancer is not as bad as chatgtp making mistakes causing my medical data to be stolen and sold.

Trying to save white collar jobs with obstructive law won’t have the effect they think it will.