Who needs AI when we can generate our own slop?
My home address seems to have found itself on the National Database for gas suppliers and I am now receiving a bill for the supply of gas. This is despite the fact that I do not have a gas supply. Just how my address is randomly associated with an account without any kind of verification remains a mystery to be resolved once I navigate the Kafkaesque “customer services” of British Gas and disentangle my address from their database. Should you also find yourself drowning in the inefficacy of British Gas “customer services” I found this form actually reached people who may be able to do something to help.
The UK government has a General Register cataloguing our births marriages and deaths since 1837 (with some gaps). This is very useful when documenting a family history except so much of it is wrong. The errors are mostly from the transcribing of the original hand written records but it does mean everything needs to be questioned and double checked before being accepted.
Just because it is in the database does not mean it is correct. Bring on our AI future. What could possibly go wrong?