Sidahmed says office must define quality carefully and convene broad conversation

Relatedly, I'm concerned that ads have been placed in outlets that are heavily dependent on AI, AI-generated content.

I've seen these outlets that claim to be a Bronx outlet, and it's all AI-generated material.

There's no actual reporters working there.

There's no actual independent content being created by real journalists, and yet the city is spending ad revenue on it.

Is this something that's on your radar?

Have you conducted an analysis here?

Thanks for bringing that up.

And yeah, generally for your focus on this issue, I really appreciate it.

I think that one of the interesting things with this role and how we're thinking about building this office moving forward is how much does the office

really get into determining the quality of the different publications?

Because that could lead to some of the accusations that we heard from the other council members.

So really what I want to do.

do is, as I mentioned to the chair, convene a group where we can really have a broad conversation about how we're defining what community and ethnic media is,

what we want to, what really fulfills the spirit of Local Law 83, and how we're ensuring that

We're supporting publications that are giving us that second benefit.

What is that second benefit?

It is keeping New Yorkers civically engaged, having reporters show up to hearings like this, having reporters go to community board hearings, go to NYPD hearings.

Really, are they doing that work for their community?

And are New Yorkers better off from this organization being sustained?

And is it helping agencies get the word out there about their publications?