The UK is just saying the quiet part out loud. If you look at the EARN IT Act in the US or the "Chat Control" proposals in the EU, then the trajectory is identical. The UK is providing the "democratic" precedent that the rest of the Five Eyes will use as leverage. If you think the US isn't eyeing the Online Safety Act as a convenient trial run for overt or covert domestic policy, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
EDIT: You added a lot more after I replied to your post.
Apparently the reason why chatGPT really likes the “it’s not just x, it’s y” structure is its overuse in marketing copy.
Maybe this marketer actually has internalized that structure for real.
Feels like a trial balloon. Yes, this one went badly. It was awful slop. But there will be another. And another. And I feel like for most people catching an ad on TV, the realisation that AI made it will decrease or won't bother them over time. The frog will be boiled.
Those "trial balloons" happened years ago, this is only news because it was pulled and because it was a pretty bad advert anyway. Coca-cola had some backlash for its use of AI in adverts ages ago and carried on anyway.
There's tons of gen-AI in adverts and most of it isn't newsworthy. The frog is stewed.
Considering that there seems to be a 1:1 ad-paragraph relationship in BI’s article’s, I can’t disagree. Anymore BI links, and I’m going to have to water-cool my Pi-Hole.
This is very, very funny. Pathetic too, of course. But mostly very funny. Has it ever delivered much more than boiler-plate consultancy packaged in buzzwords at the best of times? Now with added slop!
Accenture is more like a body shop or software factory than a traditional consultancy.
Their business model is based on the fact that most non-tech companies have a deeply seated prejudice against paying software and system engineers high salaries and that most of their software engineering senior leadership is hopelessly out of date in technology, but are well-connected with the rest of the leadership team, and can't be replaced directly by more competent, younger people.
So they spend vastly more money to outsource things to Accenture than they would do paying good salaries to engineers. But then, the idiots at Wall Street are allergic to any dollar spent on salaries, while always thinking dollar wasted on companies like accenture is "investment" and thus "a good thing".
I came to the conclusion the most executives in big non-tech enterprises fear an overly powerful IT and actively take decisions that have the goal of making IT less powerful.
It is not very different from ancient Roman Emperors making sure generals that were too successful or popular ended up suffering some funny fatal accident.
Actually, back in the day Andersens (and EDS) were some of the few companies that could deliver really big systems (for all their faults) e.g. https://accountancyage.com/2000/03/16/andersen-consulting-to... . Each year a number of analysts had nervous breakdowns, I worked with one of them.
I worked on some very large very emergency contact tracing, disease surveillance, and vaccine management implementations during covid. Someone on one of my teams ended up in an inpatient facility after a breakdown. Having senior leadership break down in tears on calls was unusual but not unheard of during that time either. Analysts and others at that level went from ok to very not ok in about 90 days. No one cares about consultants, they get ground to dust and then replaced with another team. I was paid well but it was a tough time.
Accenture is a big place, it has a “nice part of town” where there’s genuinely good people who do good things. There’s also the boring part of town where they just “turn the crank and go home”. There’s also “the wrong side of the tracks” that’s just career nightmare fuel.
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