A city council in the southern city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, has enacted an ordinance that was written by ChatGPT, and passed in October, but was revealed to have been created by artificial intelligence until recently.
City councilman Ramiro RosĂĄrio revealed their use of AI in a statement to The Associated Press, which reported: âthat he asked OpenAIâs chatbot ChatGPT to craft a proposal to prevent the city from charging taxpayers to replace water consumption meters if they are stolen. He then presented it to his 35 peers on the council without making a single change or even letting them know about its unprecedented origin.â
If I had revealed it before, the proposal certainly wouldnât even have been taken to a vote.
It would be unfair to the population to run the risk of the project not being approved simply because it was written by artificial intelligence.
RosĂĄrio told the AP over the phone on Thursday. The 36-member council approved it unanimously and the ordinance went into effect on November 23rd.
RosĂĄrio claims that his silence on using AI up to this point was intentional, as he also wanted to spark a debate over AIâs applications. âHe entered a 49-word prompt into ChatGPT and it returned the full draft proposal within seconds, including justifications, the AP said…
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