Affari per ottenere Chatgpt Plus per tutto il Regno Unito discusso da Boss e Ministro aperto AI | Peter Kyle | Il Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/23/uk-minister-peter-kyle-chatgpt-plus-openai-sam-altman
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Affari per ottenere Chatgpt Plus per tutto il Regno Unito discusso da Boss e Ministro aperto AI | Peter Kyle | Il Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/23/uk-minister-peter-kyle-chatgpt-plus-openai-sam-altman
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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 let’s say 30 million people get access to this with a 50% discount, that’s billions a year. I frankly don’t think giving people this tool will massively increase productivity, especially as most people don’t know how to use it in the first place. I definitely don’t trust Peter Kyle after the last few weeks.
Given so many of the population have ADHD/anxiety and so on, that would be ripe for AI psychosis. And this is from someone who uses it regularly, daily for work and personal use. And I pay for plus.
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
> 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?
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.