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   Tom Morris (tommorris@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 16:30:19 JST Tom Morris

   Government hyping up AI and tech transformation needs to be contrasted with the long history of gigantic fuck-ups.

   Like the Oracle debacle in Birmingham.

   https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3g01g2vq39o

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     Paul Sutton (zleap@qoto.org)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 16:30:19 JST Paul Sutton

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     @tommorris

     Not an expert but Oracle was a company providing software to a local authority, once you end that contract, you can remove data from the systems, I think with AI once you hand over the data to AI (esp as 5/7 are based in the US) then don't we lose control of that data.

     I would hope at least that any systems are going to be based in the UK as in we have our own servers running software that uses specific AI algorithms to analyse the data (if that is the use case).

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     Paul Sutton (zleap@qoto.org)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 16:41:37 JST Paul Sutton

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     @tommorris

     Agreed

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     Tom Morris (tommorris@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 16:41:38 JST Tom Morris

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     • Paul Sutton

     @zleap there are ways we could do “AI” development in sensible ways. I do not bet anyone in the government has a clue to do so.

     Paul Sutton repeated this.
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     Chris Armstrong (rhodium103@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 17:14:19 JST Chris Armstrong

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     • Paul Sutton

     @tommorris @zleap
     Is it's any consolation (it won't be) the company my partner works for (very private sector, very legal, profitable) is doing a major IT overhaul and that project is also millions over budget and years behind schedule (6 months from going live back in 2021, and they're still waiting...)

     So, not just government and public sector stuff sucks. But at least they have the excuse of being ran by elected idiots.

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     Paul Sutton (zleap@qoto.org)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 17:15:02 JST Paul Sutton

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     • Chris Armstrong

     @Rhodium103 @tommorris

     Seems to be a problem that is going to be far more difficult to solve