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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 Aurornis »

phillc73 wrote: post #22
applfanboysbgon wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Malta is part of the EU. I am personally very surprised about this partnership, just in the context of data security, privacy and the GDPR. How is the privacy of these EU citizens protected when all their prompts and data is sent to OpenAI? How do these EU citizens submit a request for all their personal data to be deleted from OpenAI records, a right they have under the GDPR with a compliant data processor?

How is this any different than EU citizens accessing OpenAI, which is already available in the EU?

Nobody is obligated to use it. It just moves the price to $0 for people in Malta who choose to use it. Same service.

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

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

ecommerceguy wrote: post #41
blfr wrote: post #7

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…

I had a free 3 month trial I just terminated. I deemed it too expensive.

Free is too expensive? Were you expecting to get paid for using it?

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

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Post by netsharc »

morkalork wrote: post #11
varispeed wrote: post #9

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.

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...

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

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Post by cj »

muwtyhg wrote: post #55
GaggiX wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not Maltese and I did find it interesting.

Could you articulate what part you find interesting?

Can you name one private/government partnership that resembles this one?

I can’t.

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

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Post by esafak »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #62
ecommerceguy wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a free 3 month trial I just terminated. I deemed it too expensive.

Free is too expensive? Were you expecting to get paid for using it?

It should be understood that he canceled before Google started charging him.

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

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Post by ipaddr »

muwtyhg wrote: post #55
GaggiX wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not Maltese and I did find it interesting.

Could you articulate what part you find interesting?

I find the small sample size of Malta to be like tests they have done in Iceland. It won't cost them too much and will generate interesting answers

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

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Post by fock »

phillc73 wrote: post #22
applfanboysbgon wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Malta is part of the EU. I am personally very surprised about this partnership, just in the context of data security, privacy and the GDPR. How is the privacy of these EU citizens protected when all their prompts and data is sent to OpenAI? How do these EU citizens submit a request for all their personal data to be deleted from OpenAI records, a right they have under the GDPR with a compliant data processor?

- Malta is selling passports and harboring criminals who kill journalists (we all remember Daphne Caruana Galizia don't we?). - buying votes/parties there would get you 10 times the MEPs you get in Germany or France. - their mayors can veto EU policy... This EU-thing really is democratic!

so: I doubt anyone has to care about that pesky GDPR if they buy the government of Malta.

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

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Post by bluefirebrand »

archagon wrote: post #54
raq98 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Humans also produce farts" is a new low. Can the AI people be interned or moved to some seasteading libertarian hellhole so the rest of us can live a normal life?

I think we’ll need certified human/no-ai communities at some point in the near future.

I'm in, where do we start?

If I never have to hear anything about AI ever again it will be too soon

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

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

blfr wrote: post #7

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…

If only it came with YouTube Premium... Most of that list is just AI in existing products which is not all that interesting. You get better value and models through ChatGPT or Claude especially if you are a developer

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Post by trollbridge »

archagon wrote: post #54
raq98 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Humans also produce farts" is a new low. Can the AI people be interned or moved to some seasteading libertarian hellhole so the rest of us can live a normal life?

I think we’ll need certified human/no-ai communities at some point in the near future.

My brother is actually moving to one (although that's not the core focus of the community, but they are extremely sceptical of AI there).

I suspect in a few years it's going to be strange to talk to him and other people there. It's already hard to explain to people that "Yeah, you can have a phone call and it can sound like your dad but it might just be a chat bot."

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