Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot we caught telling businesses to break the law – The Markup
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New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap

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.”

              • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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                1 day ago

                Well things aren’t gonna magically go back to the way things were just because someone makes all the businesses shut down. There was always commerce, even before corporations and capitalism. Thinking there was ever a time when everyone grew their own food is false.

                Hence the comment chain where we’re ragging on a commenter saying to shut down all the businesses with no foresight into what would result. Some random dude running a bodega is not a capitalist oligarch.

                • eskimofry@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  1 day ago

                  I suppose this is a convenient go to to keep the status quo for people who speak about doing good things but don’t want to rock the boat. When change through peaceful means becomes impossible then non-peaceful events start to take place, and there won’t be any order compared to planned and coordinated transition away from the awful systems in place. Would you like to live through that instead?

                  Also some random dude running a bodega is not an oligarchy but nobody said it was. Oligarchies exist and their destruction is necessary for actually competitive free markets so the random dude with a bodega is not driven out of business in the first place.

                  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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                    20 hours ago

                    The top comment on this chain says:

                    I dunno I’m in favor of telling businesses to shut themselves down.

                    And that’s what I was referring to with what I said.

                    Pay attention to the fucking context of the conversation you’re having and stop making strawmen such as suggesting I’m supporting oligarchy and the status quo by saying “Don’t shut down the bodegas” or “it’s magical thinking to expect everyone will grow their own food after capitalism.”

        • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Being anti-capitalist is entirely fair, but I think being opposed to all businesses is a less justifiable position to hold.

    • RIotingPacifist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      It’s a joke because AI tells people to kill themselves, so presumably an AI talking to businesses will talk them into shutting themselves down.

      And as Mamdani is a socialist, he presumably wants private businesses to shutdown (and be replaced by cooperatives)