State Sen. Scott Wiener’s campaign, backed by Big Tech including Anthropic, used the Claude AI tool to set up a fake site claiming to offer a chat with Sup. Connie Chan. The chatbot portrays Chan as someone who opposes housing, transit, and police, framing her as the candidate of “no.” The article criticizes this as patently fake and gross, noting that saying “no” has historically been important—from opposing the Vietnam War, a freeway through Golden Gate Park, Tasers for cops, the genocide in Gaza, and projects devastating working-class neighborhoods. It also cites missed opportunities to say no to redevelopment of the Western Addition, demolition of the I-Hotel, Uber’s rideshare platform given its rape problem, Airbnb’s evictions and tax issues, and data centers at the Cow Palace. The piece argues government regulation often means saying no to unsafe drugs, food, banking, wars, toxic waste dumping, and illegal evictions, and that going slow can be better than Big Tech’s “move fast and break things” approach. Wiener’s housing deregulation efforts have failed partly due to interest rates and developer profits, but largely because more luxury housing supply doesn’t lower prices. The chatbot, tested with actual questions, always returns the same answer.