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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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[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, this really was an excellent answer. I'm impressed by how he used this example to illustrate the wider strategy without it feeling like a weird kind of "we will cut programs like this and then everything will be fine". It gives the sense that this is being used as an example because it's simple enough to be at the top of a large pile of potential savings, which will take time and work to dig through.

To put it a different way, his answer abstracts away the right stuff. He doesn't pretend that everything will be as simple and easy as cutting this one program was.