Interesting Links for 17-10-2025

[andrewducker]

1. 60 minute video of uninterrupted AI driving in London. (See comments for times of interesting points in the video)

(tags:video automation driving London uk )

2. Trans people are hiding their identities at alarming rates

(tags:LGBT transgender USA bigotry society )

3. Greens neck and neck with Labour, new poll shows

(tags:politics GreenParty labour polls uk )

4. FindOutNow are terrible at polling, and their results should be taken with a very large pinch of salt

(tags:polls Scotland UK politics )

5. Now British lawyers are using AI (and not checking that the cases they cite actually exist)

(tags:law ai UK OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[cmcmck]

2. I really object to 'hiding their identities'!

My identity is female and back when I transitioned the advice was to deal and vanish into the big bad women's world. It was too dangerous a time and place to do any other.

I've never seen any need to do things any differently.

[andrewducker]

That's the thing, a lot of trans people in the US are having to detransition because of lack of care meaning they can't pass. So they have to hide that they are their true identity, because of that.

[cmcmck]

That's a different story of course.

I fear it could happen here too.

[adrian_turtle]

Modern record-keeping makes it extraordinarily hard to hide your identity! Especially a part of your identity you have previously been open about.

Now British lawyers are using AI (and not checking that the cases they cite actually exist)

[anef]

They should be struck off. a) Everyone knows that AI just makes stuff up b) No lawyer should cite a case that they haven't read.

Re: Now British lawyers are using AI (and not checking that the cases they cite actually exist)

[andrewducker]

I do hope at some point that becomes the standard they're held to.