The city council of the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre approved a law whose text was written entirely by ChatGPT. The “author” of the project, represented by councilor Ramiro Rosario, hid this fact, but the entire council of deputies voted in favor of approving the law without making changes.
In the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, with a population of 1.3 million inhabitants, a law came into force whose text was written entirely by the chatbot ChatGPT. This was reported by the Associated Press.
The law allows the municipality not to charge taxpayers for replacing water meters in the event of theft. The “author” of the project, Ramiro Rosari, member of the city council of deputies, used the ChatGPT chatbot to write the text.
ChatGPT compiled the articles of the bill and its legislative basis. The text of the document was sent to the City Council’s internal system for verification, which it successfully passed except for making spelling corrections and adaptation to local legislative standards.
Subsequently, the bill was sent to the relevant commissions, which approved it, then the document received the majority of votes from city councilors and was adopted.
Rosario clarified that the city council was unaware of the “authorship” of the bill. The deputy expressed confidence that if this fact had been disclosed, the project would not have been put to a vote.
“It would be unfair for the population to risk a project not being approved simply because it was written by artificial intelligence,” Rosario said.
However, the president of the Porto Alegre City Council, Hamilton Sossmeier, described the approval of said law as a “dangerous precedent” and called for a debate on the role of artificial intelligence in Brazilian public policies.
Author:
Kirill Bilyk
Source: RB
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