Brazil passed a regulation that a lawmaker secretly wrote using ChatGPT

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The council of the city of Porto Alegre in southern Brazil unanimously approved a bill drafted with the help of chatbot ChatGPT.

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The ordinance would prohibit the city from charging taxpayers to replace water meters stolen by thieves. 36 council members voted unanimously in favour of the proposal, which went into effect at the end of November.

However, most of them were unaware that a chatbot had generated the text of the ordinance. The author of the document admitted to using ChatGPT to Ramiro Rosário after the document came up for a vote.

At first, City Council President Hamilton Sossmeier did not approve of his colleague's methods. However, he later changed his mind, calling the use of chatbots for legal documents a "trend of the future."

This is the first known bill in history written by artificial intelligence and passed by lawmakers. Rosario clarified that ChatGPT was not asked to come up with the idea, but was used as a tool to write the draft. He said he used a 49-word prompt to instruct the chatbot to create a complete draft of the proposal.

Source: The Register