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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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[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Ah, that makes much more sense. Going back to double check things, I article I saw user the wording "he banned them at the inauguration", which I understood as "during his inauguration, he signed a bylaw which banned raspberry pi devices".

Thanks for the correction!

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