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Sen. Scott Wiener says his campaign created a clearly labeled parody chatbot to…

2026-08-07 · 12:13 UTC ·@garrytan ·1 min read

Brief

Sen. Scott Wiener says his campaign launched a clearly labeled parody chatbot to expose Supervisor Connie Chan’s record on housing, transit, education, and San Francisco’s recovery, and alleges Chan’s team tried to provoke the bot with questions about her accent, race, and citizenship (which he says the bot refused). He also accuses Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi of siding with Big Tech to defeat his AI safety bill, SB 1047, and vows to press AI regulation in Congress as the only candidate with corporate AI regulatory experience.

Why it matters

Sen. Scott Wiener says his campaign created a clearly labeled parody chatbot to highlight Supervisor Connie Chan's record on affordable housing, public transportation, education, and San Francisco’s economic recovery.

Key details

  • Wiener alleges Chan’s campaign repeatedly fed the chatbot malicious prompts about her accent, race, and citizenship to generate a false narrative, and asserts the chatbot refused those prompts every time.
  • Wiener accuses Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi of making baseless claims about the chatbot and of aligning with Big Tech to kill his AI safety bill, Senate Bill 1047; he claims he’s the only candidate who has regulated AI corporations and will take AI oversight to Congress.
Source evidence

I don’t think people who have so little understanding of technology like Connie Chan and her whole team of NIMBY pro crime anti education advocates should represent San Francisco

Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener)

Our campaign created this chatbot, and clearly labeled it as a parody, to highlight Supervisor Chan’s abysmal record on affordable housing, public transportation, education, and San Francisco’s economic recovery. These are critical issues for San Francisco’s future, and the chatbot was designed to focus only on her record.

To deflect from Chan’s awful record of obstruction and inaction, her campaign bombarded the chatbot with repeated malicious questions — about her accent, her race, her citizenship — in order to generate a false narrative they could peddle to the media. The chatbot refused them every time. 

Having failed at that effort, Chan’s endorsers, including Speaker Emerita Pelosi, are now making baseless claims about the chatbot, which is clearly labeled as a parody. No reasonable person would believe the website is from Connie Chan. Chan and her supporters are aggressively trying to delegitimize the website precisely because they know it effectively communicates Chan’s horrible record on housing and so many other key issues.

This is classic deflection. San Franciscans deserve accurate information about her record. The chatbot makes that record easy to see.

It is particularly ironic that Speaker Emerita Pelosi is expressing concern about AI, when Speaker Emerita Pelosi played a key role, aligned with Big Tech, in killing my landmark AI safety bill, Senate Bill 1047, a bill that was broadly supported by pro-AI regulation advocates, labor unions, national security experts, biosecurity experts, and many progressive leaders.

As the only candidate in this race who has regulated AI corporations, I look forward to taking that fight to Congress to ensure AI serves people and not vice versa.

— https://nitter.net/Scott_Wiener/status/2085568136749928618#m