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    Mamdani soll den NYC-KI-Chatbot töten, der dabei erwischt wurde, wie er Unternehmen dazu aufforderte, gegen das Gesetz zu verstoßen – New Yorks Bürgermeister sagt, dass die Beseitigung des „unbrauchbaren“ Bots dazu beitragen würde, eine Haushaltslücke zu schließen


    Mamdani soll den NYC-KI-Chatbot töten, der dabei erwischt wurde, wie er Unternehmen dazu aufforderte, gegen das Gesetz zu verstoßen – New Yorks Bürgermeister sagt, dass die Beseitigung des „unbrauchbaren“ Bots dazu beitragen würde, eine Haushaltslücke zu schließen

    https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2026/01/30/mamdani-to-kill-the-nyc-ai-chatbot-we-caught-telling-businesses-to-break-the-law

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    1. arnham on

      Funny how quickly promising free shit for all like free buses has turned into going full DOGE on the budget lmao.

      Almost like politicians lie and say anything to get elected then don’t follow through!

    4. productfred on

      At the very least, it is simply a waste of money, especially if it can’t do its only job correctly. It’s a technology issue, not a partisan/political one.

    8. Oceanbreeze871 on

      Charbots are useless. Everybody just wants to talk to a person eventually.

    10. Tomato_Sky on

      I know this is a really dorky subject and there are a lot of chatbot fans. But this is really really really important leadership. You have to be able to cut and recover when something isn’t working. My employer paid $1 million for a chatbot to read regulations and answer questions and it couldn’t do that accurately and some of the liabilities would have tanked the entire operation. If you turn off AI on your spreadsheets, imagine going to the government and not being able to turn it off.

      I don’t like him yet, but this is a really good sign I think that at least he’s pragmatic. Any other mayor would have chucked more money on the AI dumpster fire and fired workers for impeding progress. I really like this turn to focus on not just the stability and well being of workers, but also the input of the people working with the AI. You want your boss to be receptive and pragmatic like this.

    11. piray003 on

      This is good and all but Adams left the city with a $12 billion budget gap and this trims like $500k lol. He can’t raise taxes on the rich without buy in from Albany, which doesn’t look forthcoming, so more likely than not he’s going to have to make some tough, unpopular decisions on budget cuts. 

    13. Accomplished_Trip_ on

      Why is he the single most useful politician on the entire planet and he can’t be president

    14. Grass_fed_seti on

      as an AI engineer: good. That should’ve never been there.

      There are AI/ML applications I think would be genuinely beneficial for the government, e.g. better semantic search over gov services and documents that _isn’t_ couched in a chatbot, or personalized feeds for people about specific topics or legal areas that impact them that pull actual announcements and sources. But I think the chatbot interface does very little beyond providing a layer of hallucination, which when you’re talking about government matters is not worth the risk.

    16. joshTheGoods on

      He specifically said in his presser that this will not really help close the budget gap. It was the ONE example he gave, and it was about how this is an example of what they expect to find everywhere else. Mamdani team gives their actual cuts / plan in roughly 2 weeks.

      Mamdani was so careful to avoid this headline. He just needed to stand firm one more time on not giving specifics. Here on Reddit, you can splash out AI and expect everyone to cheer, but out in the real world talking about a supposedly 500k contract when the shortfall is in the BILLIONS just looks weak / inept especially if you let the media make claims like this headline.

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