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OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

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Re: OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

#11

Can't imagine the size of brown envelope. Handing over your entire nation's thoughts to a foreign company operating under US Cloud Act in normal circumstances would be considered a risk to national security. Why not invest in home grown talent and companies?

Worse than that, it's bi-directional. The model's responses and tuning now influences a whole nation of people.

Re: OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

#12
I’m personally not a fan of OpenAI always referring to their model as “providing intelligence as a utility.” Sounds very condescending, are you saying this isn’t something we already have? If that’s the opinion, may be good to reflect on how the models were trained. On millions upon millions of books which no authors were compensated for.

But that’s besides the point, the whole initiative is self-defeating by design. This isn’t like power, it’s something humans do inherently possess, this is simply a way to amplify what already exists. Intelligent people using AI generally seem to be more productive than when they don’t use it, and lazy or unintelligent people generally see cognitive decline, at least based on what I’ve heard online but I could be wrong on that.

So saying “this is where you get intelligence” is both false marketing and destructive to OpenAI as a company, since by all definitions, it isn’t true.

Re: OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

#13

Can't imagine the size of brown envelope. Handing over your entire nation's thoughts to a foreign company operating under US Cloud Act in normal circumstances would be considered a risk to national security. Why not invest in home grown talent and companies?

Malta is the size of a small city, I don't think national security or investing into home grown companies comes into play here.

Re: OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

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The subsidies deployed by the industry are so massive I don't even know if consumers need public assistance here. It's kinda like the gov was subsidizing web hosting or basic banking. The price for a regular consumer already barely hovers above zero. Just look at this list of services included in Google's AI Pro subscription[1]. Google took everything it could think any consumer might need and bundled for $20/mo. The…

Thank you for this comment and holy cow, I have the pro subscription and didn't know it came with that many bells.

Re: OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

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post #18

A gambling, money laundering and Mafia paradise where journalists are killed for investigating the Mafia partners with OpenAI. A match made in heaven! Next, force an eyeball scan on the peasant population.

Unfortunate thats the reputation we have :(
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