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-...
[flagged]
OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
111–120 of 372 posts
Re: OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
#112Re: OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
#113Malta 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-...
[flagged]
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.
Re: OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
#114Re: OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
#115It'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.
Malta has a population of 574,000 people. That's slightly more people than transit through the NYC metro area's airports on a daily basis.
Yes, ChatGPT has a large user base, but Malta's not a particularly meaningful datapoint in terms of the population size.
Re: OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
#116Openai 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
[deleted]
Re: OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
[flagged]
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…
[flagged]
Re: OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
#118Openai 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
I run some numbers, how much would it cost to build MaltaGPT - sovereign hosted ChatGPT.
Malta has a population of 500k. Let's assume 100k people use MaltaGPT daily, and they send an average of 10 messages per day, so roughly 1M messages per day. That averages 694 per minute, but at peak could be 3-5x that, so let's say 3000 per minute. Usage will of course vary by day of week and time of day (they could partner with a Pacific island and share inference hardware).
Those 3000 messages per minute translate to 50 messages per second. Let's say average prompt input is 5k tokens, and output is 500. So 250k tokens per second for prompt processing (let's ignore caching for simplicity) and 25k tokens per second for output decode.
If we take a 500B dense model, that concerts to roughly 1 trillion flops per token. So we need 250 petaflops per second of prompt processing and 25 petaflops for output decode. So 275 PFLOPS in compute.
That may sound like a lot, however a NVIDIA DGX B200 machine (8xB200) has a compute of 144 PFLOPS at FP4. That is assuming 100% efficiency which isn't really possible, and we also need to factor in memory usage which we would be limited more by than compute. So let's say we'd need 10 of them. For an entire country to have a sovereign version of ChatGPT.
The cloud cost to rent one machine is around $50/hour, so that would mean our cluster comes to $4.8m per year. However the list price of a machine is around €400k, so the price to buy the cluster outright would be around €5m (you need the rest of the data center too), with operating costs of around €500k per year.
So per citizen: €10 upfront and €1 per year.
Re: OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
#119The comments here were not sufficiently obsequious towards AI companies, so the submission dropped from the front page to page three in minutes. That is how AI boosterism works here.
How?? Are you saying there's a lot of silent AI-boosters on HN voting it down despite almost every single comment here being non-obsequious? Looks like your model of reality has detached from modelling reality.
Your comment does not even internally make any sense. Go ask a clanker, 80 IQ guy.