Porto Alegre, Brazil city councilman Ramiro Rosário sort of cheated at his job of legislating in October when he typed “Create a municipal law for the city of Porto Alegre, originating from the legislature and not the executive, which prohibits the Municipal Water and Sewage Department from charging the owner of the property for the payment of a new water meter when it is stolen,” into ChatGPT, submitted it to the council, then waited until after it had passed and came into effect to tell his colleagues who wrote it, which kind of freaked them out, the Washington Post reports.
“I go back to that phrase that has already become a sort of cliché in this subject: No one will be replaced by artificial intelligence, but we could all be replaced by those who know how to use artificial intelligence. So we have to prepare ourselves for this path,” Rosário told the Post.
“If I had followed the usual process, it would’ve taken days to sit down with my team and legal sources. But in a fraction of that time, AI looked into the best references regarding good practice in drafting bills inside and outside the country on its database. This was an unprecedented process of an AI-drafted bill that brought in suggestions that were in line with the principles and values of my mandate – I knew I had to sign it,” Rosário added, plainly enjoying the troll-ish move.