New: The National Archives is pushing Google Gemini AI on workers despite concerns from archivists about accuracy of the historical record. Internal presentation shows the "AI-Mazing Techventure" they are embarking on www.404media.co/ai-mazing-te...
The National Archives is launching a public-facing AI chatbot called "Archie." Employees have concerns.
I requested some military records from the UK National Archives. Paid £30 or so, which was fine. I waited 11 months to receive them. The digital file was 26 scanned pages with a 10 MB filesize. They only keep the file online for _three days_ before they delete it, so if you miss it, it's gone.
cursed as usual
Why do AI’s have the most corny names ever
This is terrible on every level. Who cares is digitization of the pension files takes another 20 years? Destroying the archives to get a 90% accurate summary is not worth it!
Alarming decision.
Honestly what the hell are they thinking? Why would you want your archives infested with an entity that is a complete black box & at the moment spits gibberish at will? Just dumb shit. It’s very annoying.
"a small chute that leads to an incinerator and is used to destroy documents, photographs, and transcripts that are considered embarrassing or inconvenient"
This is not what any archive should be spending money on. Can we get their budgets reallocated to humans?
The details on that International Council on Archives presentation mentioned in the piece is at the first link, the recording of that presentation is a yt link on that page, also included www.ica.org/event/ica-eg...youtu.be/ZXTe7oLK-mc?...
We need to get the techbro lobbyists out of DC. They’re foisting on our government all the useless tools they can’t get regular consumers to buy.