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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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[–] janny@lemmy.org -2 points 8 minutes ago

sorry to bother yall but this guy has been fucking harrasing and creeping on my freind at my collage please send him cursed pics, or like horrifying memes or something, like its gotten so bad that she got fucking injured just trying to avoid the guy his number is 571-420-4603. also take care of yourself, if you can, shits hard right now. and we all deserve better. this is real by the way im not a bot(though who knows thease days) im just on a revenge quest,

It feels ridiculous I have to say this, but it feels so good to hear about a politician just immediately saying "oh yeah, we needed to figure out where to make cuts, and these shitty AI chat bots seemed like an obvious place to start."

[–] itistime@infosec.pub 34 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

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!

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 87 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Wild that a politician deciding to terminate an application (and its associated contract) because the application doesn't actually work as intended seems so odd.

But I like it.

Yes! It is so sad this seems like such a bold move, but we've just become so fucking conditioned to bullshit politicians gaslighting us about why everybody else is just going to have to go without in order to keep giving handouts to the most entitled and useless pieces of crap just because they're already wealthy.

Why? Allegedly because they generate more money... But do they really? Have they ever?

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 17 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It was costing the administration around half a million dollars.

How? Surely this was put in place as a cost cutting measure. I mean, terminate it, sure. Pay actual humans. I just have questions.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 25 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Often the promised cost savings never materialise, because when the chatbot fucks up, it's humans who need to clean up the mess.

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[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 15 points 8 hours ago

Let's stop using all ai chatbots. That shit is harming earth.

[–] superminerJG@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago

This is the kind of waste, fraud, and abuse that Elon was supposed to be getting rid of.

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 171 points 13 hours ago (27 children)

I've yet to see any negative headlines about Mamdani ever since hr won election, aside from him opposing primarying Chuck Schumer for some stupid fucking reason.

Seeing the tankies talk about him on .ml would make you think he was leading the 4the Reich. Notice how the proletariat tends to win when we don't engage in puritanical politics based off of red fascism.

[–] nednobbins@lemmy.zip 10 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I just headed over to .ml and did a local search for "mamdani"

I see a bunch of the more conservatives Democrats and their supporters complaining about him and conservatives of all stripes are really hoping he'll fail.

I've been called a tankie several times and I rather like Mamdani. I see him, AOC, and Sanders as the best hope for the future of the US.

Where are these tankies that hate Mamdani so much? What do they hate him for?

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Authoritarian-Communist.

Named after the mostly Marxist-Leninist leftists who supported the Soviets brutality in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, when they sent into tanks to kill the student democratic uprising.

Used by non-auth leftists for decades, past few years some centrists and rightists have started using it for anything left that they don't like as calling everyone communists wasn't working any more. These days it generally means anyone who supports China, Russia, blames Ukraine, etc.

[–] HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah I'm not searching that term either

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Where are these tankies that hate Mamdani so much? What do they hate him for?

I have seen a few, here is one I saved from some time back.

https://lemmy.ml/post/39249375

A lot of things get removed from .ml so its hard to go back find things sometimes. If you are around lemmy a while you will find quite a few takes from tankies.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

Idk, the post calls him infiltrator but there is -54 likes. It just looks like general .ml likes Mamdani.

Also if they are removing the posts and comments against him, doesn't that mean he is liked over there?

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 points 3 hours ago

So I had a look at the voting score and only 5 of those down votes came from .ml, most are from .world accounts.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

doesn’t that mean he is liked over there?

Hard to say, I have seen a few that outright don't like him. But more of a he isn't as far to our liking overall.

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 30 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 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 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 points 30 minutes ago

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

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 35 points 12 hours ago (21 children)

The tankies don't like him?

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 15 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Tankies don't like anyone, they'll never be satisfied. I'm fairly certain most of them are russian trolls tasked with sowing discord and fracturing the left.

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[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 78 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

They don't like electoralism, prefer to LARP revolution while doing nothing to actually lay the groundwork for one.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 51 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Which is sort of wild.

Marx was very clear that communism could not be delivered by heroes on horseback. But then again, Tankies don't like Marx, they like Lenin, the man who lost an election to actual communists and then had them all killed. He seized power via coup, and then made himself a king, and wrote how kings (vanguard parties) were somehow vital to communism, and how democracy was not.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

"If your last name ends in 'in', it's time to get out."

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[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 31 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

Tankies are chicken-hawks.

They gladly let millions of marginalized peoples suffer and die for a pipedream that those people will fight a communist revolution... on the tankies' behalf.

Tankies won't ever be the ones on the front line. They spam fuck comment sections and try to convince as many people as possible to act against their own self interests, to put them in a desperate enough state that the tankoes can more easily manipulate them.

Tankies aren't communists, they're red fascists. Same abuser mentality as the fascists they so gleefully surrendered to in November 2024.

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[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 21 points 10 hours ago

One thing I've learned as a socialist is that there is always a purity test by people who consider themselves purer socialists.

Karl Marx himself could post on here and people would accuse him of being a neoliberal stooge.

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[–] desiccated_event@piefed.blahaj.zone 59 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, look, a leader leading...how strange, not beholden to anything but his constituents? I love this guy.

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 33 points 12 hours ago

The chatbot, which was released by the Eric Adams administration in fall of 2023, was meant to provide business owners with an accessible way to check city rules and regulations. But as first documented by The Markup and THE CITY, the bot provided answers that, if followed, would lead to illegal behavior by businesses, like taking a cut of employees’ tips.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 38 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

It is also the environmentally responsible thing to do.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 13 hours ago

Real heroism.

[–] StitchInTime@piefed.social 22 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That, in and of itself, is not something that can bridge this kind of a gap, but it’s an indication of the ways in which money has been spent while refusing to account for the actual costs of what these programs are.

This is what I see as the important bit, and indicates both a level head and clear communication. We need more politicians across the board who can answer directly like this, and not try to inflate or exaggerate.

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