Deal, um Chatgpt Plus für ganz Großbritannien zu erhalten, diskutiert von Open AI -Chef und Minister | Peter Kyle | Der Wächter
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/23/uk-minister-peter-kyle-chatgpt-plus-openai-sam-altman
Von Mccobsta
Deal, um Chatgpt Plus für ganz Großbritannien zu erhalten, diskutiert von Open AI -Chef und Minister | Peter Kyle | Der Wächter
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/23/uk-minister-peter-kyle-chatgpt-plus-openai-sam-altman
Von Mccobsta
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Interesting and potentially very helpful for some people, but disastrous for others. AI / LLM’s seem to do an absolute number on certain peoples brains.
Still, machine learning isn’t going anywhere and is only going to become more advanced so people may as well get used to it.
Erm… no, thanks? If I want a product, I’ll pay for it. Like hell I’d support taxpayer money funding something like this when we’re already broke.
So the tax payer has to pay for what is essentially an enhanced search engine. Fuck off.
The Government: „You’ll need to verify you’re an adult to get to some pages on Wikipedia“
Also the Government: „You get AI; You get AI; Everyone is getting AI!“
Fuck just fix the potholes instead? Christ it’s not that hard to move the needle in a way the average person will notice.
It’s the plot of the Bond film ‘Live and let die’
Give away your product to destroy competition and create a dependency – then start charging later.
I don’t need AI or any kind of digital crap to tell me or help me do anything.
I’m perfectly capable of writing a letter or any document for that matter and I can draw or edit any document to my liking
Peter Kyle might just be my least favourite Cabinet Minister, and there’s a lot of competition.
I wonder what Peter will say about people that see AIs/LLMs as a bigger threat than a benefit to humanity? Kaczynsky incarnates?
How about free dental care?
Or maybe feed kids?
Or ya know, scrap TV license if we’re just offering to pay for a subscription for folks
How many of my emails am I going to have to delete because of this?
Sell the nhs and civil service data to chat gpt in exchange for bespoke programs. You could cut half the work force in 10 years. Not this other nonsense.
So I’m sure the government wouldn’t want ChatGPT censored in anyway and will not interfere in it at all lmao
So we haven’t got enough money to sort out the railways or our water.
But we can fund a tech luxury product?
Get outta here.
Don’t want it.
Please kindly eject it and whoever is trying to force us to have it from this planet. Please and thank you.
Boy, OpenAI really are struggling to monetise, huh? Imagine having the cheek to ask a foreign government to pay you billions of dollars to forcibly provide your service to their citizens. A *sensible* Minister hearing such a suggestion would probably wonder why they would be proposing such a thing if their service was as important and desirable as they claim.
Alas, it was Peter Kyle.
The article says that the government didn’t take it seriously and didn’t want to pay for it so it’s not happening but that won’t stop people failing for rage bait headlines.
Peter Kyle is so heavily lobbied by the tech industry its a real problem. It feels like half the dinners he eats are given by palantir execs.
What does this supposed to mean?
The UK taxpayers pay so the British government might buy them something they can buy themselves?
> In July, Kyle signed an agreement with OpenAI to use AI in the UK’s public services. The non-binding deal could give OpenAI access to government data and lead to its software being used in education, defence, security and the justice system.
🤮 WCGW
Reads a lot more like Sam Altman knows the bubbles on its way to pop sooner rather than later to me. 2 billion from lets say 35 million working age adults per year works out around £4/month/worker. If you truly believe your tool is so essential and powerful for business and people you’d be pushing for far more income than that.
Pipe dream like when the gov considered opening up a portion of 4G for free would have been great but never happened.
> Those close to the discussion say Kyle never really took the idea seriously
Before you all get your knickers in a twist
So the government has found yet another way to make us pay to have someone cheaper to take your place…
This seems a bit pointless given that if you own a Windows computer, which is the majority of computers used for work, they come with Microsoft copilot, which is their version of it and functionally similar for the types of uses you’d use in a professional setting.
Of course, that doesn’t line a private individual’s pockets with taxpayer money though.
So:
> “Those close to the discussion say Kyle never really took the idea seriously, not least because it could have cost as much as £2bn.”
> “… dined in March and April”
All fanciful bollocks, then, and nearly 6 months old
No money for the healthcare, social workers got a pay rise that equated to a loss, coppers got 0.1% after inflation.
But you know. This jumped up tech brah should get a huge amount of taxpayer money.
And all it’ll cost is your biometrics and personal data that should be protected by GDPR
Never gonna happen. Or it’s a major security issue if it does. Guarantee government wants a backdoor and openAI want to plugin to national government data. Why else would Gov entertain it? They don’t talk to Netflix…
Farm out your critical thinking to Open AI!
We’ll be geniuses in no time!
Government – „How can we transfer more taxpayer cash to the corporations and the wealthy further increasing the wealth gap?“
OpenAI – „…“
OpenAI – „Let me help you with that.“
> Kyle has been a vocal champion of AI within government and has also embraced its use in his own role. In March, it emerged that he had asked ChatGPT for advice on a range of work-related questions, including why British businesses were not adopting AI and what podcasts he should appear on
For fuck sake. Rather than actually ask some businesses he asked a computer system known for making shit up. Is this seriously the calibre of politician we have now?
Meanwhile in the US, cooling for data centres is estimated to need 150 BILLION litres of water in the Midwest, effectively depleting drinking water for 4.6 million homes. All so students can flop through essays and dipshits use it to create it images to further right wing causes (though Garfield crashing into the twin towers is kinda funny). Most people think Generative AI is shit and pointless. Its enshittified internet searches and is being put in places it doesn’t need to be while hallucinating wrong answers
This is Corporate Socialism to prop up a bubble that as time goes on, increasingly looks like it is going to burst.
Great idea the teenagers can use this to ERP with robot girlfriends now that we turned off their porn
They’re blocking internet access, banning VPNs and now dealing with Open Ai? Fuck all the way off.
It’s so blatant every day that corporations run our lives and make our laws.
Did anyone read the article? It says OpenAI suggested it but Kyle didn’t take it seriously.
Weren’t they asking us to delete emails to save water (lol) the other week? Now they want to pay for us all to use AI?
Why the fuck would we do this
What the fuck is going on
Jesus fucking Christ
So, anyone around the world can then use a VPN to spoof a UK IP address and also get ChatGPT Plus for free? UK tax payers start paying for the whole world to have access to premium GPT, which doesn’t fund our economy, but the US.
For the small price of £20 per month per user who needs it, I don’t see why we need it as a country.
No, dear god no! I rather we all got the same amount in Argos vouchers!
Let me guess, I will have to buy a licence to use it but will also need that licence to use other AIs, or watch AI generated content?
So the taxes I pay are going to contribute to a bubble that’s on the brink of bursting? Fuck off with that.
something I don’t want that wastes huge amounts of power and water isn’t something I want my taxes spent on, actually.
In before everyone and everything is connected to palantir through the thiel network
Smells fishy…like a certain individual involved in this potential deal (at the expense of taxpayers) might benefit on the side somehow from it becoming reality.
Private sector board position after government work maybe…
Can the government use our taxpayer money to subscribe everyone to Pornhub Plus as well?
You know, for ‘stress management’ and ‘national morale.’ Imagine the economic boom when every citizen is both smarter and significantly more relaxed.
ChatGPT Plus will be just like ChatGPT but as if you mention anything negative towards the OSA it will call you a pedophile
No way. The AI bubble is about to burst. These guys have been hyping this up but it the tech is clearly levelling off in terms of the speed at which new gains are made. But it would be just typical for our government to get themselves locked into a massive multi-year contract like this.
I swear politicians are always so gullible when it comes to technology, years behind the curve and ready to believe whatever hype the tech bro grifters are peddling.