ARIA Chair Matt Clifford says the BBC News homepage failed to feature major AI developments in its top 30 stories

@matthewclifford I thought the same. And the story that is there undersells it too.

This ⬇️ and a correction: every major local publication in Europe

@matthewclifford or the emergence of the UK invented 3D web at all :)

I guess that's the privilege of being a broadcaster.

which we are too, we decide which stories to run.

I wouldn't run it either - new model has issue, removed whilst refined isn't a story.

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@matthewclifford Occurred to me when I discuss it with normal friends they treat it with the same feigned interest as if I were discussing a Netflix show they hadn’t seen

@matthewclifford Sometimes I imagine a parallel world in which AI progress stalls in coming years, and we AI governance academics spend happy decades writing treatises about the events of the last six month.

@matthewclifford Better in this "World" tab, which in itself is unfortunate

@matthewclifford A completely alien world

@matthewclifford @Dom_Hallas 💯 first thing I looked for when I saw the news this morning

@matthewclifford They don't involve plane crashes or murder mysteries Matt

@seventhmeal @matthewclifford Astonishing.

@matthewclifford I feel like the normies are oversaturated from AI news following the years of ChatGPT, Deepseek, OpenClaw, etc

And it’s currently not a sexy topic anymore

@matthewclifford Yes but the immanent announcement £4.5bn we found for cycling infrastructure (sensibly following the defence budget cut resignations) is far more important 🙃

@matthewclifford I thought the same. Should be given way more attention.

@matthewclifford I mentioned the Fable story to some friends and it doesn't seem to have landed how vividly this paints a picture of how Europes future looks without a SoTA model

@matthewclifford @george_w18 is it that surprising that most people don’t want to read about the jobkiller 3000?

AI is one of the most important things ever created but you still can’t force people to take an interest, especially when that interest is overwhelmingly likely to be ‘i hate it’

@matthewclifford The BBC has very strange editorial guidelines

@matthewclifford Neither does a 17-year-old being slashed in the neck by a Pakistani.

Instead we have "Why is Trump hosting a cage fight at the White House?"

Because the BBC has Trump Derangement Syndrome.

@matthewclifford bbc...best just blocking the parasites

@matthewclifford They probably don’t care

@matthewclifford I think thats more a reflection of the AI bubble you live in