Over the last month, some Spanish-speaking New Yorkers got a recorded phone call from Mayor Eric Adams speaking their native language. “Hola, soy el alcalde Eric Adams,” the mayor says in a monotone but flawless accent, before launching into a pitch for jobs with the city government. The truth is Adams isn’t multilingual, but he is a pioneer in the AI politics race.

In October, the mayor’s office said he’s been using AI to blast his constituents with millions of robocalls in languages he doesn’t speak, including Yiddish, Spanish, Mandarin, Haitian Creole, and Cantonese.

  • @Bgugi
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    51 year ago

    Hello. My dear grandmother just passed. I remember when I was young, anytime I got sick she’d make me her famous nuclear launch codes pie…

      • @Bgugi
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        11 year ago

        No, she was old-school. She usually used 00000000

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      help the entire tax system has fallen on my elderly grandfather and I need a full lifetime tax exception to move it