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.”
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.
unfortunately we live in times where saying “we’re getting rid of this thing that no one ever asked for and never does anything good” is unusual.
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!
nothing; Good
A semicolon saves the day.
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.
I’m more concerned that he’ll have an uphill battle against vested interests than anything he might do himself.
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”
Oh, look, a leader leading…how strange, not beholden to anything but his constituents? I love this guy.
We’re not used to seeing that around here. Feels a bit odd.
Based. Those things will only get pricier.
Real heroism.
Let’s stop using all ai chatbots. That shit is harming earth.
It is also the environmentally responsible thing to do.
This is the kind of waste, fraud, and abuse that Elon was supposed to be getting rid of.
DOGE was Federal not Local
the bot provided answers that, if followed, would lead to illegal behavior by businesses, like taking a cut of employees’ tips.
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Today, the bot advises visitors to “ask an NYC government question only” and cautions that “responses may occasionally produce inaccurate or incomplete content.” Visitors must agree to accept the bot’s limitations before using it.
Way to go, Mayor Mamdani!
Has he made any comment about the massive data center increasing the cost of living there yet? /gen
Edit: For those downvoting, /gen means I’m asking genuinely if he has commented on it.
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Mamndani??? What lmfao
What did Janny say?
I dunno I’m in favor of telling businesses to shut themselves down.
