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-...
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OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
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#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
You forgot tourism which is their largest money maker.
Tourism is relatively big there but only relatively to the population numbers. I'd argue gambling contributes more to the GDP, while tourism only keeps the light on on the economy. Tourism allows the citizens to make money but it's a small country so it doesn't scale. Gambling scales globally. I have no numbers to back this up.
Tourism scales globally in the same way unless you mean the island would be at 100% occupancy rate already. Also my point is it's hard to trust you when you ignore the top export while talking about exports.
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#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Considering it was anonymous In the recent past, my department received an email from on high with a list of people who were yet to complete the "anonymous" survey. I always assume my work-survey answers are traceable back to me, whether it's via self-doxxing with my answers, tracing links of the rootkit-level MDM software that can record my screen, but they pinky-promise to only use for remote assistance, in case…
You do know it is possible for the answers to be anonymous but who submitted to be tracked?
Depends on how it's done.
Trusting that process to be done well is probably not the greatest plan.
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#235Shady companies do this so that people get locked into the product and then come to expect it. Then the companies suck the blood out of the local and national government for every cent.
Too many people are stupid-stubborn and not even willing to pay 5$ a month for an online service that would help them greatly. If a government thinks that ChatGPT even in its current form is a big boon, it makes sense to do this. This is also insurance - your population gains LLM literacy and will have an advantage over other countries; even if it's only a tiny bit, at the level of states it adds up.
> Too many people are stupid-stubborn and not even willing to pay 5$ a month.
No, not gonna pay yet another tax, mr. Taxman.
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
Worse than that, it's bi-directional. The model's responses and tuning now influences a whole nation of people.
It's an interesting way to control the population.. let them delegate thinking to systems, and then just control the systems to respond to your (you = government) preference. My analogy is using AI is like using a navigation system, you can end up delegating everything to it and drive into a river...
>and drive into a river...
More like off the cliff!
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#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Considering it was anonymous In the recent past, my department received an email from on high with a list of people who were yet to complete the "anonymous" survey. I always assume my work-survey answers are traceable back to me, whether it's via self-doxxing with my answers, tracing links of the rootkit-level MDM software that can record my screen, but they pinky-promise to only use for remote assistance, in case…
You do know it is possible for the answers to be anonymous but who submitted to be tracked?
This guy is wrong.
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#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are saying that the product is already available then implying a government deal on behalf of all citizens doesn't matter because the product is already available.
Maltese population are historically price sensitive. €20 a month isn't something you easily justify especially with recent cost of living increases. So the fact that you get it free after doing some basic due diligence is actually a big deal in the local context.
duck.ai to the rescue.
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#239We 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."…
You are not providing any argument for why the course developed by the University of Malta should match your experience.
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#240Malta 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-...
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Since the article is about Malta, the discussions here should be centered on Malta. Sure, everyone knows the US is corrupt as f*** but what relevance does that have here and now? There are plenty of other places on HN to bring up this "argument".