New York State not New York City.

I don’t know why Mamdani is pictured

the text in this image is also just flat-out wrong: the proposed legislation does not actually "ban AI from answering questions" on these subjects at all, as this post claims it does.

https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026/kristen-gonzalez/ny-state-senator-kristen-gonzalez-her-bill-address-ai explains that her bill is strictly about impersonating licensed professionals:

We have documented instances of AI chatbots providing false medical license numbers to users and documented cases of real harm from AI chatbots providing misinformation. This is what my common-sense legislation addresses—protecting users from misinformation, scams, and fraud. This legislation does not prohibit a user from asking a chatbot questions or receiving general information and advice, as long as the chatbot is not presenting that information as a licensed professional. It would also not prohibit licensed professionals from consulting AI technology in the course of their work.

It might not work, but it would serve to increase awareness that you absolutely cannot trust these machines to give you correct answers, ever.

The nice thing about laws is that they don't give a shit. If they say you can't do something, it's your problem to make sure you don't do it.

It could provide a new revenue stream for NYC, since big tech companies will treat the fines as a cost of doing business

Anything that requires a license is a good start.

Some legislation is to lay the ground work to expand it later.

Easier to lay a sub floor and put carpet over it later, than to just put carpet over the studs. When you're changing a massive thing like this, it's better to start small and work outwards. Canada introduced universal Dental and Phamacare and it was limited to certain demographics. People bitched about "Well what about me?"

You're coming. Start with what/who is most important, make sure the system works, and carry on from there.

I'm on the same side as you, vehemently fuck generative AI, however the difference between some LLM output incorrectly telling you that you have cancer and a shitty coder vibe coding with severe vulnerability is the ability to place blame, there's a person who's job it was to make sure info is secure and the vibe code actually works. There is no singular person who is traceably culpable for shitty AI output telling you bad info.

So AI can form coherent thoughts better than humans can?

They already use AI for trading, just not LLM like ChatGPT.

Ai does already do all the trading. Hence the flash crash.

Dunning–Kruger machines in full spin.

I work as a software developer, with most of my work focused on development for an iron mine operation. It's a lot of moving pieces, loads of software that needs to cooperate, and on top of that the workers that do the actual work develop their own workflows.

We develop stuff in tandem with the workers as much as possible, as in, we gather what they need and tailor the software to fit their workflows. These workflows change over time though, and decisions cemented in software 20 years ago no longer applies to modern workflows.

Hell, last week I spent a significant amount of time setting up a digital area for them to load ore onto because the software wouldn't cooperate any other way, and even then I had to troubleshoot why this other piece of software wouldn't load data from it.

There are so many different experts in these mines, and an LLM couldn't do any one of their jobs. It's so domain specific, and even specific to the location they work in, and that knowledge is possessed solely by the workers that are doing the work. ChatGPT knows fuck all.

A) Because racism

B) He may not have a direct role but does have influence.

I doubt the companies will go that route, it would infer that the AI's output represent the companies and that would make them liable.

AI shouldn’t be an excuse to take a job, it can be a tool but that’s it

In what way is this restricting information? AI usually just summarizes info that was already trivially searchable

No you will just need to sign into a VPN

But the real answer is we just need to make people aware of how they work

Good luck with that. There are people posting in this very thread that seem to be convinced it's magic.

No, its still incredibly easy to get AI to tell you how to make drugs or a bomb.

it’s likely impossible for ai companies to comply.

Then they better figure out how to comply or they are the ones breaking the law and get shut down.

It was easy a year ago, now it's quite hard.

I spent about an hour with ChatGPT and I couldn't. After there was a post on lemmy "how to smuggle a pound of flour into a country that has banned pastries" or something like that.

Even open weights models like Gemma or Qwen have it baked in, you need to transform the model to overcome the limitation, it's not part of a harness or post-processing anymore.

I diagnosed myself

using the internet

I'm going to assume you researched medical documents, studies, and journals to link things together, and not ask a chat bot "My foot hurts, what is wrong?"

You're smart enough to self diagnose yourself with readily available information to the public, but not smart enough to not know the difference between that and a chat bot. That's remarkable.

I diagnosed myself

Congrats, glad your life is hopefully changing for the better because of this.

I hate taking the wind out of your sails but this is in the area of anecdotal evidence. You are a single person saying this for your specific case. I am sure we will get another few people confirming the same here.

But what about how many people tried this and got nothing useful out? Or even a misdiagnose? Anyone enthusiastic about this possibility of AI diagnosing people wouldn't really mention this. People like to mention the successes but it needs to be weighed against the failures too, and I don't think there is a good record of that.

If there is, its probably a medical study and I'd venture a guess that AI did not perform as well as a trained doctor.

So you played digital Russian roulette and won. Congratulations.

I diagnosed myself

Putting aside the ultra ignorance and/or untreated narcissism just dripping off of a statement like that... If you were curious of the presence of any absolutely blatent bias in your speech, just look at your use of "a lot" and "some" in your final sentence . Wow....