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Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state secrets.

  • SaraTonin@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Nah, i fully believe they just don’t have a clue. I mean, what’s the hypothesis here, that they’re deliberately trying to fight the Antichrist alongside Thiel?

    A podcast i listen to had, a few months ago, a story where a minister who was waxing lyrical about the benefits of AI and was asked something basic like about hallucinations or something and they literally never heard of them. Had no clue what the questioner was talking about

    I think that’s the level that basically all politicians understand technology at

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      3 hours ago

      a minister who was waxing lyrical about the benefits of AI and was asked something basic like about hallucinations or something and they literally never heard of them

      “I don’t know about this thing that runs counter to my policy. I’ve never heard of it. I’ll have to look into it.”

      Pretty standard politician-speech for “Sit down and shut up, I don’t want to talk about this”.

      Maybe the minister sincerely hadn’t heard of AI hallucinations. Or maybe they were just being coy. Either way, the new information isn’t going to shape their decision because they’re not governing based on information provided by the general public. They’ve got a coterie of lobbyists and partisan insiders who have already made the choice on their behalf.