UK Gov AI Guidance Tells Civil Servants Not to Say 'Thank You' to Models

dc_lawrence · x · 2026-09-26

alexanderrX mocks the UK government's official AI guidance, which tells civil servants to use Gemini Flash instead of Pro, keep prompts short, and not say thank you to the model — for environmental reasons. He questions the mindset: 'instead of building and using it to automate the work, we write guidance on how to use less of it... caring more about the rules than actually doing the work.' Andy Masley's retort: 'Does the UK government issue guidance for exactly how many seconds of a microwave you should use every day?'

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UK Gov AI Guidance Tells Civil Servants Not to Say 'Thank You' to Models

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