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<\/div>Looking for a patsy, ex-New York governor and current NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo found one: a one-armed man.<\/p>
As the New York Times<\/em> reports<\/a>, the aide in question, longtime Cuomo adviser Paul Francis, admitted to using ChatGPT to craft the disgraced former governor<\/a>'s new, typo-riddled housing policy plan<\/a>.<\/p> \"It’s very hard to type with one hand,\" Francis, who had his left arm amputated in 2012<\/a> following a sudden illness, told the NYT<\/em>. \"So I dictate, and what happens when you dictate is that sometimes things get garbled. And try as I might to see them when I proofread, sometimes they get by me.\"<\/p> The \"things\" that \"got by\" the career wonk include, but are not limited to, a headline with the term \"objectively\" misspelled as \"Bbjectively,\" the mask-off claim that rent control is \"symbolic,\" and a link to a 2024 Gothamist<\/em> article<\/a> that cited ChatGPT as the sourced used to pull it up.<\/p> Though the 29-page policy document has since been updated<\/a> to remove its more glaring mistakes, an archived version of the original thing<\/a> shows the embarrassing errors in all their glory.<\/p> The excuse also doesn't quite add up. There's nothing wrong with using dictation software, but why would that cause blatant spelling errors or a reference to ChatGPT? And why wasn't someone else reviewing the document before pushing it out? All told, it sounds a lot like a fictional explanation crafted by a political campaign to deter critics by throwing a man with a disability under the bus.<\/p> Prior to Francis' admission in the NYT<\/em>, the Cuomo campaign went back and forth with local news website Hell Gate<\/em><\/a> as to whether ChatGPT was used to write the document.<\/p> After an initial non-denial from spokesperson Rich Azzopardi that thanked the outlet for \"pointing out the grammar\" errors, followed up with a longer explanation about the use of voice recognition software, and then claimed that the person who wrote the policy paper insisted they didn't use AI to write it.<\/p> In a statement to Hell Gate<\/em>, housing advocate Cea Weaver used the ChatGPT-generated errors to clown on the scandalous ex-governor<\/a>.<\/p> \"[Cuomo's] campaign is so out of touch that he is outsourcing housing policy to a robot,\" Weaver, the director of the New York State Tenant Bloc, told the site. \"But New Yorkers don't need ChatGPT to tell us that we need a rent freeze — it's 'bbjective.'\"<\/p> Obviously, this is far from the first time a politician has been caught using AI<\/a> — and with the way things are going<\/a>, it certainly won't be the last.<\/p> More on inapproprite AI uses:<\/strong> Judge Goes Ballistic When Man Shows AI-Generated Video in Court<\/em><\/a><\/p> The post Called Out for AI Slop, Andrew Cuomo Blames One-Armed Man<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Read more: Looking for a patsy, ex-New York governor and current NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo found one: a one-armed man. As the\u00a0 New York Times reports , the aide in question, longtime Cuomo adviser Paul Francis, admitted to using ChatGPT to craft the disgraced former governor 's new, typo-riddled housing policy plan Continue reading
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