Enlarge / Has a government employee checked all those zeroes and ones floating above the skyline? (credit: Getty Images) If you follow generative AI news at all, you're probably familiar with LLM chatbots' tendency to "confabulate" incorrect information while presenting that information as authoritatively true. That tendency seems poised to cause some serious problems now that a chatbot run by the New York City government is making up incorrect answers to some important questions of local law and municipal policy. NYC's "MyCity" ChatBot launched as a "pilot" program last October.

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