£2bn for food and housing would be nice.

please don't use people's tax money for this

for two billion fucking quid, they should own the entirety of open ai, and have sam altman become the british public's official jester for 5 years.

Can we stop depending on American scraps and make our own AI monoliths.

When I see a screenshot of Google Gemini saying that the word Oreo is a palindrome (it's spelt the same backwards and forwards), I don't know why we're all running towards AI to do everything. Plus there's the environmental cost as well.

I'd rather have an angry wasp enema, ta!

So it's not from Kyle, who's the potential buyer. Just another sales pitch from con artist Altman.

I’m not pro this for reasons others have pointed out, but there is a ray of sunshine alongside the clouds of “just give loads of taxpayer money to a foreign company and hope it improves matters”.

If humanity is on a path to true artificial evidence, one of the worst case scenarios is that we end up with a few AI-haves (read: billionaires) and then the rest of humanity end up as the have-nots fighting over the scraps left over. What we have here is a government aspiring to ensure we all have equal access to the AI future. This is a hugely important thing that should not be downplayed even if the current approach is ham-handed at best. This is a baby that should not be thrown out with the bath water.

Don't they realize how this looks over the backdrop of austerity they've been doing?

A major sovereign state groveling before a US corporation. I want to throw up

free mandatory dog shit for everyone!

Why the hell would they do that?

Yet again. These old farts in government messing with things they have no idea about. Yeah. Let's spend billions giving everyone access to create, post and distribute AI generated crap which is mostly inaccurate and un-credited rubbish.

End of society speedrun

Let's fuck up the planet even more.

Wtf? Are they going to get an Amazon Prime subscription for everyone as well? If its that important to them that everyone have full access to an LLM then why not host one nationally that people can use

I guess the only way they could make it profitable was to trick an entire country into a subscription while that country is still convinced it isn't useless

Ah yes right after admiting a bubble(1), let's try to scam a whole country.

(1) https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/18/openai-sam-altman-warns-ai-market-is-in-a-bubble.html

I fucking hate the government. They are so fucking clueless. Not just Labour but the Cons, the Lib Dems, Reform, all of them are so fucking stupid and they ignore the people there to tell them their ideas are Stupid.

People need food. People need housing. People are freezing in winter and boiling in summer.

"Please help us"

"Sorry, best I can do is ChatGPT. Ask it how to survive, or how to entertain you, idc."

The tech secretary is the biggest idiot in our government right now which is really saying something. He doesn't have any professional experience with technology, gets his policy ideas from asking chatgpt, accused anyone who opposes the online safety act of being a paedophile, and when a constituent sent him emails about Palestine he had the police raid her home at 4am.

No thanks 👍

Prime Minister Palpatine please.

Interesting gamble for a government in desperate need of either economic growth or a very public win.

There's so many issues that money could be spent on in this country and yet the politicians are desperate to cosy up to OpenAI and give them money for nebulous benefits