On me, every government response is "Agree. DSIT will explore how it will take forward this recommendation as it develops the National Data Library and its wider data access policy. The government will set out further details on the National Data Library and data access policy in due course."

Interestingly, the press release says the government will fully deliver the action plan, but the actual gov response only 'partially agrees' with recs 13 and 21, hasn't said if it agrees or disagrees with rec 24, and even where the top line is 'agree' has stuck a pin in many with vague responses.

"13. Establish a copyright-cleared British media asset training data set" - This one sounds a bit muddled. Not sure this is my bag either. But if you're going to 'copyright clear' this data, how does that square with then licensing it?

"12. Actively incentivise and reward researchers and industry to curate and unlock private datasets." - Research is largely funded by the public and there is already the Concordat on Open Research Data. How's that going? Maybe *just* fix the private sector element then!?

"11. Build public sector data collection infrastructure and finance the creation of new high-value datasets that meet public sector, academia and startup needs." - Ambitious! But surely we already have loads of data collection infrastructure? So I'm not starting from scratch, right?

"10. Couple compute allocation with access to proprietary data sets" - Another one which is a bit vague. Some of this already exists for researchers, surely? For start-ups this seems somewhat trickier?

"9. Develop and publish guidelines and best practices for releasing open government datasets which can be used for AI, including on the development of effective data structures and data dissemination methods." - sounds a lot like a lot of data management work to me!

"8. Strategically shape what data is collected, rather than just making data available that already exists." - a bit like data.europa.eu and their High Value Datasets? digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...

"7. Rapidly identify at least 5 high-impact public datasets it will seek to make available to AI researchers and innovators." - that one is vague, and technically already done, surely? We must already have 5 high-impact datasets to available?

Whoah, there are some saying I should be AI ready, and now you're telling us it's all a confidence trick? 😐

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