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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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[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 47 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

I've seen one today: "Mamdani admits massive NYC deficit! Proof socialism doesn't work!". Dude, he wasn't mayor a month ago, pretty sure socialism isn't the problem here...

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 17 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Is that a real headline? If so, that's extremely dishonest journalism...

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 weeks ago

IIRC It was newsmaxx or some other propaganda outlet.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The overly rich own most large news outlets so it‘s not surprising.

[–] SedatedJdawg@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yup, when they asked "Is this a real headline?" The song "This is America" popped into my head...

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 3 weeks ago

Conservatives don't care about truth or internal consistency. They just want to harm the out-group.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 2 points 3 weeks ago

Generally, I would never put much weight into an article with an exclamation mark in the headline.

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 7 points 3 weeks ago

Not the first time I read that kind of BS. In Cadiz (Spain), a left wing major said 1 month after being appointed that the previous right wing major left nothing but spider webs in the accounts. The right wing tried to push that as "only a month and he has broken the city".