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.”

  • teslekova@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    Excuse me, we’re Chinese trolls, thanks very much; we are unhealthily obsessed with China because it’s incredibly economically successful, it’s the last hope of actual oldschool dictatorship of the worker socialism, and it’s barely avoided being controlled by the market.

    It’s incredibly centralised, it’s authoritarian, yes, but it’s also building all the solar panels and executing billionaires when they get too powerful and making the imperial nations look like chumps, so you should forgive us for our infatuation.

    My lack of action and lack of building local organisation? Guilty. I’m trying to correct this. China is not the model for the West, and even the Chinese govt says that, so as a true Chinahead I do not call for Chad Xi to come save us, that is missing the fucking point. We must grow our own socialist organisations to bypass the state, and anarchists and syndicalists might be the best idea for the West, with our individualism and love of freedom.

        • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          18 minutes ago

          That’s fine. The real world is messy; it’s never about “good versus bad,” it’s always about “better in this context versus worse in this context.”

          China does some things better, like green energy. They’re also pretty bad in some areas, like worker’s rights, political representation, and human rights in general.

          That being said, if they saved us from trump, I for one would welcome our new yuan-based overlords.

          China is still a capitalist country though. It’s state capitalism, but capitalism nonetheless. Calling themselves communist is really just branding.

          Based on some other comments though, clearly tankies in the west don’t understand that there can be a discrepancy between what one calls oneself and what one truly is. Oh well…