Victoria Baines

Policy at DSIT, previously researching @Demos.
Thinking about tech during my 9-5, mostly yoga, reading and crafting outside of that
*Insert normal disclaimers*

[Victoria Baines @VictoriaBaines7]

I'm hugely proud of everything I achieved there - and am now loving the opportunity to now get my teeth deep into a new policy area and learn just what it is that people get up to behind those big doors on Whitehall....

[Victoria Baines @VictoriaBaines7]

Better late than never... But happy to share that for last month I've been in an exciting new role as a policy adviser @SciTechgovuk 🥳

[Victoria Baines @VictoriaBaines7]

I joined the think tank world as a research trainee with absolutely zero experience in policy... Looking back it's amazing to think of the breadth of areas I was able to work on: scam adverts, online working conditions, mis/disinfo, privacy and a whole host of whacky new tech

[Victoria Baines @VictoriaBaines7]

@stand_for_all @ellenejudson 🐦

[Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants @lgsmigrants]

This morning we placed 200 missing posters outside the Home Office to mark the children missing from hotels housing asylum seekers.

[Kate Harrison @kslharrison]

I can't understate how important libraries are for local communities. I've seen this in my research and personal experience as a library assistant. We should be investing in libraries as social, educational and safe spaces, not closing them down.

[Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo]

🚨Exclusive: OpenAI used outsourced Kenyan workers earning less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic, my investigation found

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https://t.co/302G0z7vy3

[AS @agstrait]

They're impressive, but ChatGPT and other generative models are not magic - they rely on massive supply chains of human labour and scraped data, much of which is unattributed and used without consent. These are serious, foundational problems that I do not see OpenAI addressing.

[Courtney Stephenson @CourtSteph13]

It might be the last Friday before Christmas but @VictoriaBaines7 & I shared some reflections on @UKLabour’s recent ‘commission on the UK’s future’ & why we think it risks being a missed opportunity to engage people in policy using digital innovations.
https://t.co/arqNER8tWa

[Victoria Baines @VictoriaBaines7]

@AndrewDSPhil @Demos Saying that... not sure if that's the bar you want to be compared to necessarily?

[Victoria Baines @VictoriaBaines7]

@AndrewDSPhil @Demos Andrew it's such a privilege to work with you! Truly one of the best brains on Whitehall

[Victoria Baines @VictoriaBaines7]

A lil' introduction to my wonderful team💜

[Ellen Judson @ellenejudson]

It’s been a busy few months at CASM, with new faces, projects, networks! So with holidays approaching, seemed like a good time for us to pause and say hello 👋 Here we have a picture I love (front row, current CASM, back row, previous colleagues 💜) For more about us - read on!

[Victoria Baines @VictoriaBaines7]

More of these thoughts here ➡️
https://t.co/VfoIrw5YUB

[Victoria Baines @VictoriaBaines7]

This week @Demos shared the key learnings from our Vaccines and Misinformation conference we held with @warwickuni

Read the full summary here ➡️https://t.co/0wiYE7QpRP

Headline reflections below in🧵

[Victoria Baines @VictoriaBaines7]

Post-conference I was left feeling that conversations about online misinformation miss half the picture if we only focus on questions of system design and content moderation: wider social factors are at play to make misinfo communities so appealing.