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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

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Post by dvfjsdhgfv »

realty_geek wrote: post #214
foxfired wrote: post #110

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."…

My saddest interaction recently was with a friend with a 1st class degree in computing and several years experience in software engineering in many prestigious companies. I asked if he had tried out Claude code or anything similar. His answer: My company has scheduled a training course in that so I'll wait :(

It's hard to detect sarcasm these days but in case you're being serious, not everybody will share your feelings.

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

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Post by dvfjsdhgfv »

Rohunyyy wrote: post #126
emsign wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Getting free data from every Maltese citizen rather.

Data if you pay. Data if it is free. At this point is there any software that is used by the general public that isn't tracking you ?

Our only hope as a society in this aspect is to hope that in 2 years or so the prices of RAM fall to the lever where more people are able to use local SOTA models (which, at that time, should correspond to commercial SOTA models 6 months older.

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Post by michelb »

zwaps wrote: post #269
maltesegirl wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This article gives a distorted view of my country. We have a largely normal government with normal levels of corruption. You can compare Malta to a municipality in a big country. I have lived in many north western European countries and at the municipal level I personally witnessed the same levels of corruption, that in my native Malta would be considered the biggest scandal of the year. It's all a matter of framing,…

Well the business model of Malta is being a tax evasion haven and access port for oligarchs. That’s quite a difference to most other European countries, although not all.

It's also the ideal country to have your gambling company incorporated.

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

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Post by nsonha »

zkmon wrote: post #207

I asked ChatGPT about corruption levels in Malta and whether the technology companies pay bribes to officials to get contracts. It was honest in its response and said Malta has serious corruption levels by EU standards. That answers my wondering of why on earth all citizens require a paid service of chatGPT.

> why on earth all citizens require a paid service of chatGPT

If all citizens use ChatGPT as search engine instead of Google, their ability to access information and defend against fake news (as of right now) will be significantly improved and we only shift privacy concerns from Google to Open AI, which does seem like the lesser evil.

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Post by 9dev »

maltesegirl wrote: post #290
zwaps wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well the business model of Malta is being a tax evasion haven and access port for oligarchs. That’s quite a difference to most other European countries, although not all.

?? London, Paris, Berlin ?? That’s quite a difference to most other European countries The difference being that you personally are not prejudiced against them for no other reason than your ignorance and arrogance.

Respectfully, in the best case you don't really know what you are talking about. These three cities certainly cannot be categorised as tax havens in any sense of the word, and the local legislation is objectively different - as evident to anyone comparing it.

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Post by 9dev »

jerrythegerbil wrote: post #113
justshutup123 wrote: post #111

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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…

Funny how some people here mistake criticism for propaganda...

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Post by HKH2 »

Rohunyyy wrote: post #126
emsign wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Getting free data from every Maltese citizen rather.

Data if you pay. Data if it is free. At this point is there any software that is used by the general public that isn't tracking you ?

VLC, Blender, OBS Studio, Krita...

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

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Post by maltesegirl »

9dev wrote: post #305
maltesegirl wrote: post #290

Earlier quoted context omitted.

?? London, Paris, Berlin ?? That’s quite a difference to most other European countries The difference being that you personally are not prejudiced against them for no other reason than your ignorance and arrogance.

Respectfully, in the best case you don't really know what you are talking about. These three cities certainly cannot be categorised as tax havens in any sense of the word, and the local legislation is objectively different - as evident to anyone comparing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_money_in_London

https://trap.org.ua/en/publications/parisian-quarters-monten...

https://www.icij.org/news/2024/10/french-authorities-seize-7...

https://fakti.bg/en/imoti/927878-the-luxury-properties-of-th...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_money_in_Malta

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

fragmede wrote: post #154
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #60

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First step of enshittification :)

Which definition of that are you using?

Huh?

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

This is at the “good to their users” phase - giving free access to an otherwise non-free product is being good to them, right?

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Post by maltesegirl »

sevg wrote: post #298
maltesegirl wrote: post #284

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Most corruption that I have been witness to, both in Malta and abroad falls into two categories: nepotism and procurement/tenders. Both of these are extremely common to the point that most don't even consider them corruption. For context, I work in academia, so I am sort of by proxy employed with local/federal governments and am therefore privy to how procurement deals are made. There is nothing that happens in Malta…

Yeah, just casually murdering journalists is totally normal. Your username and comment history suggests it might not be wise to take your word as objective truth.

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