City lawmakers in Brazil passed the nation’s first legislation written entirely by AI — even if they didn’t know it at the time.
  • just_change_it@lemmy.worldEnglish
    411·
    7 months ago

    Do you know who actually wrote any law passed in the past 5 years?

    I mean actually know. Who contributed? who understood the legalese? who snuck in something that meant something else when actually enacted?

    The answer probably no for almost everybody. Even the people who vote on the laws usually have no idea who actually worked on a bill. They know the sponsors and whoever comes with the petitioner to talk about it. It’s not usually full of attributations.

    We pay huge bucks to lawyers to read over this stuff and to consider the impact of a bill before actually discussing it in committees before it even gets a vote, typically. If something is missed it’s on the elected officials.

    This is such a non-news story because the humans read something and chose to go with it. End of story.

    • burliman@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      7 months ago

      I was actually sitting here not even thinking about ChatGPT or about Brazil. I was thinking about the metadata and algorithms on the internet that propped this story up and want me to be mad about it… or something. I don’t really know what I’m supposed to say about fucking Brazil having ChatfuckingGPT write their laws. Is this the thing I am supposed to care about this week?

      Sometimes it’s more frustrating not knowing how they want me to feel about this stuff than it is to be constantly barraged by the outrageous posturing of the news.

  • MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.comEnglish
    223·
    7 months ago

    Gosh I feel less insane for the email that I sent to my city council asking them to define rules requiring transparency of AI for writing civic codes or just flat out not allow it at all.

    edit: Oh, wait. I think that I demanded that AI can’t run for seats on the council, as well. I’m standing by that one, too. Be damned, Roko’s basilisk!