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.”

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    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.