[Royal] Media Opportunity

[King Txec]

Azul,

Approximately a month ago I spoke with a representative from a London-based communications company that is looking for a micro-nation to partner with. They have a client that wants to partner in a headline-grabbing creative campaign with us as they develop their program. The idea presented to me was that we would launch the worlds first fully-AI governmental departmental minister that would be an entertaining and thought-provoking opportunity for journalists to write about.

From one of the email contacts, I quote "Talossa is already a remarkable institution with a good story to tell, the whole thing comes together as a fascinating news story for press to report on. You can imagine the headline of "This futuristic micronation is the first state to appoint an AI government [agent]."

I spoke at length via Zoom with their representative and I was assured that we would not have anything to do on our end, except allowing their AI to interact. The team from media agency would do all the work.

I presented this opportunity to the Cabinet and now I am presenting it to the nation for further discussion.

-Txec R

(This topic was originally posted a week ago but I took it down to give the cabinet more time).

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

I love it. The AI could be responsible for quizzing people about why they want to immigrate, or it could be a new minister of information designed to provide answers to people based on our existing corpus of literature and the wiki.

[King Txec]

I've invited their representative to join the Landing Pier so we can learn more directly. Hopefully more will come from this.

-Txec R

[Iac Marscheir]

I urge the Crown to immediately reject this proposal in the strongest of terms, to suspend the invitation indefinitely, and to make a public statement categorically refusing this type of engagement with our nation.

We
Do
Not
Need
AI
Here

[Tric’hard Lenxheir]

I'm old and I've seen too many movies probably but I dislike and fear AI

[Iac Marscheir]

Frankly, considering the ways AI affects the spaces it's allowed into, the fact that this was being considered—and left undisclosed—without some kind of popular approval beforehand is appalling.

[King Txec]

At this time, the only thing discussed was the fact of the proposal, so I'm not sure why it would be appalling that an outside group made a proposal.

-Txec R

[Barclamïu da Miéletz]

We do not need AI in Talossa. It's perfect as it is.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

I'm surprised.  What exactly are people afraid of?  I think it would be cool to have an AI that knew all about our history and stuff.

[Barclamïu da Miéletz]

I'm surprised.  What exactly are people afraid of?  I think it would be cool to have an AI that knew all about our history and stuff.

I'm not "afraid", I just don't want Talossa to be influenced by AI. We do not need it, we're perfectly fine without it.

If it does get implemented as a government agent I am leaving Talossa for good. I will rejoin if it would get removed.

[King Txec]

The big story is not the AI, but the media exposure for Talossa. The worlds press will train its attention on the first ever country to have an AI minister. That seems pretty cool to me. Beside that, what do you think this AI will do? Take over everything? It will be a novelty. Allow Max to answer some questions at the very least. I'm not saying we should do it, but we should keep an open mind.

-Txec R

[Iac Marscheir]

Because you're talking about handing over control of Talossa's image to a glorified, plagiaristic chatbot.

You have no idea what it'll say, and you have no way to control it. It has no loyalty to fact. For all you know, it could say we had a province named after a fascist dictator because we collectively hate Jews, for example.

[Barclamïu da Miéletz]

Because you're talking about handing over control of Talossa's image to a glorified, plagiaristic chatbot.

You have no idea what it'll say, and you have no way to control it. It has no loyalty to fact. For all you know, it could say we had a province named after a fascist dictator because we collectively hate Jews, for example.

Exactly, AI is unpredictable.

[Iac Marscheir]

Besides, this quid pro quo of "use our AI and we'll pay you in exposure" is really scummy-looking.

[Barclamïu da Miéletz]

Besides, this quid pro quo of "use our AI and we'll pay you in exposure" is really scummy-looking.

It's a scam. Besides, we don't know the compamy's name.

[Tric’hard Lenxheir]

The big story is not the AI, but the media exposure for Talossa. The worlds press will train its attention on the first ever country to have an AI minister. That seems pretty cool to me. Beside that, what do you think this AI will do? Take over everything? It will be a novelty. Allow Max to answer some questions at the very least. I'm not saying we should do it, but we should keep an open mind.

-Txec R

As evidence I give you all of the AI generated migrant applications we have been receiving.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Because you're talking about handing over control of Talossa's image to a glorified, plagiaristic chatbot.

You have no idea what it'll say, and you have no way to control it. It has no loyalty to fact. For all you know, it could say we had a province named after a fascist dictator because we collectively hate Jews, for example.

I hope this project would be done in a responsible way.  Obviously, we shouldn't do this if it will entail "handing over control" of... well, anything really.  But to me, it seems like there wouldn't be any harm in hearing them out.  Even the publicity of being considered for this project would be helpful.

[Iac Marscheir]

Inherent to this proposal is the idea of letting journalists write publications based on the output of a chatbot that, again, nobody has any control over. It's a massive publicity disaster waiting to happen, and that's before you consider that the publicity would mostly attract people who care more about hyping the AI than the nation.

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP]

Even the publicity of being considered for this project would be helpful.

This presupposes that we were the only or at worst one of a select few micronations appoached (highly unlikely) and that it would generate any publicity in the first place (also highly unlikely). I cannot possibly imagine that "Micronation adds chatbot integration" would be something that anyone would report on.

[Tric’hard Lenxheir]

It is also very possible that it will expose the less than stellar former citizens. It could expose Talossa as a harborer of criminals. I don't know how much the media representative can see so I won't go into details here except to say that the incident in question was resolved and the person is (as far as I know) no longer a citizen.