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Posted by bookofjoe 8 hours ago

OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens(openai.com)
120 points | 104 comments
KnuthIsGod 28 minutes ago|
Malta is an important component of Russia's money laundering Laundromat system.

"Malta’s corruption is not just in the heart of government, it’s the entire body"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/03/malta-...

justshutup123 16 minutes ago|
nobody cares. you dont need to add random propaganda links whenever a country is mentioned.
jerrythegerbil 4 minutes ago|||
Laundering of CC/Trial Accounts/Enterprise LLM inference is already a HUGE market, leveraged in part for distillation attacks on western AI.

A whole country’s worth of accounts just got access to a service we know is being laundered en masse and is also the same tech currently propping up many economies at the moment.

That same country is known for laundering other forms of liquidity. This is par for the course, not propaganda. And it’s going to be a huge problem by November.

gmerc 9 minutes ago|||
Thanks Ivan
bingaweek 3 minutes ago||
The overt hatred people here feel for Russians would make an antisemite blush. This is on the same level as calling random people Schlomo.
foxfired 18 minutes ago||
We had a mandatory ChatGPT training course at work. You had to sign up in limited space classes. This is a large company, needless to say it was chaos to get a significant number of people to participate.

I got a spot. We were shown how to copy and paste data from excel and other data sources into the chat interface. We had sample data to work with, there was always someone in class who would say "mine didn't work." The developers in the room asked about codex, the instructor said she wasn't a developer.

We did get a certificate though. There was nothing they could teach that you couldn't learn by using the free version in your own time. Whatever they are doing with the Maltese government is just to increase the monthly active user count.

hbarka 1 hour ago||
Next, maybe Anthropic can make Sicily an offer it can’t refuse.
sidcool 1 hour ago||
All that data on all Malta citizens. Remember, if you're more paying, you're the product
zamadatix 1 hour ago||
Remember, if the government says it's free it almost certainly means the people are actually paying for it.
EGreg 54 minutes ago||
Yes and even if you are paying, you’re still the product!

That’s whats happens in two sided markets. Everyone’s the product.

The original adage of “if you’re not paying, you’re the product” doesn’t necessarily rule out the converse. The fact that the grandfather comment made a freudian slip makes it funnier.

zamadatix 46 minutes ago||
Hear hear! And those who say paying is the only time one has a chance to not be the product should look at getting involved with a genuine charity or volunteer program too. There are no universal rules about this kind of thing.
akomtu 22 minutes ago||
Not long ago nearly everyone in the anglosphere had a habit to talk to a pastor, revealing all the dirty secrets under the veil of anonymity. The Church was an incredibly informed organization. Today OpenAI & Anthrophic are re-creating a parody on that tradition: people talk to an AI pastor, under the veil of anonymity, and divulge their darkest secrets.
sharpshadow 1 hour ago||
It’s a voluntary two hour online AI course with 1 year ChatGPT premium reward. Getting AI basics to the people with playground.
emsign 40 minutes ago|
Getting free data from every Maltese citizen rather.
lpolovets 24 minutes ago||
It's sobering to think that if every single person in Malta -- an entire country! -- signed up for ChatGPT and used it weekly, ChatGPT’s WAU would increase by only a few tenths of a percent.
decimalenough 7 hours ago||
It's a one year free trial, after that it costs money.
Sophira 2 hours ago||
And only after a mandatory course, if I'm reading the article correctly.
alpinisme 2 hours ago||
Honestly depending on how it’s implemented the course could be really socially useful, both for establishing some baseline knowledge that could help avoid some of the pitfalls of too-credulous use of AI and for spurring people to innovate in their local businesses because they’ve been exposed to ideas earlier than would happen “naturally” as ideas just percolate through society
emsign 38 minutes ago||
What a great marketing campaign. How huge was the bribe from OpenAI to the Maltese government to sell out their citizens?
627467 5 hours ago||
Openai seems to be fast forwarding the original Facebook playbook: lobbying for regulatory moat and now OpenAI zero[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Zero

exabrial 1 hour ago||
Gosh how generous of malta government officials to transfer those tax earnings straight to the 1%ers pockets
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