AI sackings reach New Zealand, which will use it to eject 14 percent of government staff (www.theregister.com)

submitted 3 months ago by throws_lemy to c/newzealand

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[-] Fizz 24 points 3 months ago

My workplace is drunk on slop. slop emails, slop documentation, slop reports id be laughing if it wasnt so fucking depressing given we're very government involved and public services should be the most stable resilient systems in the country.

Saying gov was slow to move to the cloud is so fucking triggering. They moved to the cloud at massive cost increase and at the end of the day its still government owned hardware in government owned sections of the data center so why the fuck doesnt the government just own it and put it in their own datacenter. They've already got the IT department to manage it.

[-] absGeekNZ 8 points 3 months ago

The government needs to prioritize moving away from IT systems reliance that is not NZ based.

Software/hardware need to be NZ based and NZ owned. All systems should be FOSS; and only allow non-FOSS where a very good reason exists.

[-] nsh 4 points 3 months ago

It would've been a great opportunity to do what many European governments are now doing, reducing the reliance on US tech companies. Instead, they decided to do the exact opposite.

Sometimes I wonder if they actually believe what they are saying. Or is "AI" just an excuse to further push their neoliberal agenda.

[-] Fizz 3 points 3 months ago

Sovereign software at the bare minimum. I'm fine with hardware from allies because I doubt we are capable for making that here. But US doesnt count as an ally anymore in my eyes.