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OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
- mock-possum 6mo agoSmart move, just wish a more ethical outfit was making it.
- hello8402 6mo ago> Smart move, just wish a more ethical outfit was making it. EU created software like Mistral is no different
- arvid-lind 6mo ago> Mistral is no different come on now, surely you're not serious.
- rendx 6mo ago> "Malta’s AI for All initiative will offer people of all backgrounds the opportunity to learn how AI can be used responsibly through a course developed by the University of Malta. The course is designed to help people understand what AI is, what it can and can’t do, and how to use it responsibly at home and work. After the course is completed, citizens can access ChatGPT Plus for one year at no cost to them."*
- julianlam 6mo ago> for one year snort
- dawnerd 6mo agoGotta get them hooked and reliant on it. It’s why they subsidized the entire software industry to adopt it.
- 34df 6mo agoOAI really believes LLMs are going to have the same revolutionary effect as personal computers did.... lmao.
- beering 6mo agoYeah, I think we can all agree that personal computers were a mistake.
- Forgeties79 6mo agoEven reading this as a sarcastic comment I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here.
- varispeed 6mo agoCan'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?
- applfanboysbgon 6mo agoMalta is the size of a small city, I don't think national security or investing into home grown companies comes into play here.
- phillc73 6mo agoMalta 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?
- applfanboysbgon 6mo agoChatGPT is already available to users in the EU. It already has an EU-aligned terms of service. Not that I'd trust them, because the GDPR has been borderline useless in reality, but there's nothing particularly legally interesting about this offering. > How do these EU citizens submit a request for all their personal data to be deleted from OpenAI records Probably by sending an e-mail to a designated address, like most services that operate in the EU, but you can read their TOS if you'd like to be sure.
- varispeed 6mo ago> but there's nothing particularly legally interesting about this offering. Care to elaborate or we have become completely apathetic to any display of sleaze?
- sauercrowd 6mo agoTL;DR: they made a course for citizens
- zitterbewegung 6mo agoWould be interesting long term if this sways public opinion about data centers in Malta. I do support though AI literacy in general and this is a good step. Would wonder about the deal in how much this is actually costing Malta if at all.
- purrcat259 6mo agoUnlikely. Other than the telcos there's only one proper commercial datacentre here. Space is very constrained and the electricity supply stability + summer heat aren't a fun combination
- SOLAR_FIELDS 6mo agoAs a complete layman, I do wonder why you would bother building a datacenter at a place that everyone agrees is going to be basically underwater in the next 50-100 years.
- IncreasePosts 6mo agoYou're thinking of the maldives.
- rileymat2 6mo agoWouldn’t 45 to 95 years of use be plenty of time for ROI?
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- purrcat259 6mo agoThe coasts will definitely be wiped in 100 years but underwater is a bit of an overstatement
- fragmede 6mo agoalthough, Microsoft did a whole experiment with underwater data centers, so maybe there's lessons from there that could be applied.
- blfr 6mo agoThe 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. There's even $10 GCP credit (that you can use for AI API calls). [1] https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/14534406?hl=en https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/14534406?hl=en
- dwa3592 6mo agoThank you for this comment and holy cow, I have the pro subscription and didn't know it came with that many bells.
- ecommerceguy 6mo agoI had a free 3 month trial I just terminated. I deemed it too expensive.
- loloquwowndueo 6mo agoFree is too expensive? Were you expecting to get paid for using it?
- esafak 6mo agoIt should be understood that he canceled before Google started charging him.
- HDBaseT 6mo agoAs a Student, I got 1 year for free. Purchasing a new Pixel will also give 1 year for free.
- gwerbin 6mo agoIt's a ploy to drive adoption. Once it's considered essential they can turn the screws in massive contracts with governments, big enterprises, universities, and public school systems. Probably some genuine competition on price, but the equilibrium price is probably below cost and not sustainable.
- alfiedotwtf 6mo agoTo be honest, PR pieces don’t all need to go on HN, especially when this is probably not news worthy to anyone here except Maltese living in Malta
- GaggiX 6mo agoI'm not Maltese and I did find it interesting.
- muwtyhg 6mo agoCould you articulate what part you find interesting?
- ipaddr 6mo agoI 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
- GaggiX 6mo agoThe fact that a nation provides free access to SOTA models to all his citizen via this partnership, I mean it's not something I have seen before, therefore I find it interesting, also Malta is not too far from me.
- cj 6mo agoCan you name one private/government partnership that resembles this one? I can’t.
- ninjahawk1 6mo agoI’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.
- arcanemachiner 6mo ago> 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? Your body also generates electricity and natural gas. Do you also get upset when energy companies claim to provide these services as a utility?
- malfist 6mo agoIs the electricity or natural gas that your body produces a defining feature of humanity? Does AI actually provide intelligence?
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- raq98 6mo ago"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?
- neon_me 6mo ago... rather than that, they should prepay everyone a few hours of therapy and aroma sticks. A waaay more profit in the long game.
- MagicMoonlight 6mo agoIt’s a shame ChatGPT is total trash now.
- Muromec 6mo agoThanks CCP for having providing one that is as lying and flattering but cheaper.
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- syngrog66 6mo agoFacts for context: Malta has a population of only 550k. Everyone in Malta could already, before this deal/plan, and even without it now, use ChatGPT (or any other LLM model/service, whether free or premium.)
- purrcat259 6mo agoCitation needed. I haven't heard of this. I'm Maltese so feel free to be as detailed as needed.
- collingreen 6mo agoThey 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.
- purrcat259 6mo agoMaltese 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.
- kdheiwns 6mo agoAnyone can use ChatGPT for free already. The vast majority of people using AI as a search engine alternative/chatbot never have any reason to pay. You don't even need an account.
- wartywhoa23 6mo agoduck.ai to the rescue.
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- rtlambh 6mo agoA 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.
- purrcat259 6mo agoUnfortunate thats the reputation we have :(
- eska 6mo agoI used to work for a hosting company, and all the shady business like exploitation of children and sex workers came from there unfortunately. But that’s because people move their business there for legal reasons, not because of their residents I assume.
- Muromec 6mo agoEyball scans are already there on the border for other people. So are AI turrets shooting people on sight, just a different border
- musicale 6mo agoWhat could possibly go wrong?
- musicale 6mo agoNothing, apparently.
- decimalenough 6mo agoIt's a one year free trial, after that it costs money.
- Sophira 6mo agoAnd only after a mandatory course, if I'm reading the article correctly.
- alpinisme 6mo agoHonestly depending on how it’s implemented the course could be really socially useful, both for establishing some baseline knowledge that could help avoid some of the pitfalls of too-credulous use of AI and for spurring people to innovate in their local businesses because they’ve been exposed to ideas earlier than would happen “naturally” as ideas just percolate through society
- emsign 6mo agoWhat a great marketing campaign. How huge was the bribe from OpenAI to the Maltese government to sell out their citizens?
- sMarsIntruder 6mo agoIt’s like what Perplexity did with the PayPal userbase. Not sure why a bribe would’ve involved: it’s a win-win situation, especially near elections.
- 1295817 6mo agoThe 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.
- foxglacier 6mo agoHow?? 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.
- eashG 6mo agoYour comment does not even internally make any sense. Go ask a clanker, 80 IQ guy.
- hello8402 6mo ago> The comments here were not sufficiently obsequious towards AI companies Tech employees worried their stock will drop in value (laugh emoji)
- martin-t 6mo agoSurely the deal is beneficial for both sides. For OpenAI because they get a lot of money and and for the government because they can keep tabs on how people use LLMs to make sure they're not doing anything naughty.
- 627467 6mo agoOpenai 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Zero
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- lucaspiller 6mo agoI 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.
- iririririr 6mo agoshowed the same reasoning to a fortune500 before moving to cloud (mind you, we already had the data centers paid for). didn't matter, went full on aws because we got a 40% discount on first year. something along the way of the bad decision triggered some exec bonus. so along the whole company went.
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- martinbfine 6mo agoWelcome to the 1990's internet days redux in the form of AI! Can't wait for the new AI devices and Web 4.0! So exciting!
- arvid-lind 6mo agoYou can't even imagine what the AI of Things will look like!
- sidcool 6mo agoAll that data on all Malta citizens. Remember, if you're more paying, you're the product
- zamadatix 6mo agoRemember, if the government says it's free it almost certainly means the people are actually paying for it.
- EGreg 6mo agoYes and even if you are paying, you’re still the product! That’s whats happens in two sided markets. Everyone’s the product. The original adage of “if you’re not paying, you’re the product” doesn’t necessarily rule out the converse. The fact that the grandfather comment made a freudian slip makes it funnier.
- zamadatix 6mo agoHear hear! And those who say paying is the only time one has a chance to not be the product should look at getting involved with a genuine charity or volunteer program too. There are no universal rules about this kind of thing.
- keerthiko 6mo ago> The original adage of “if you’re not paying, you’re the product” doesn’t necessarily rule out the converse. I believe the logical term "converse" means swapping the conclusion and the condition in a logical statement, ie converse(if A then B) = if B then A So here the converse would be "if you're the product, you're not paying". Which doesn't exactly make sense to me as a claim to make here. Did you just mean to reinforce your first sentence? In which case, I think you mean "the inverse", not the converse. However, I have only used the word converse in a "formal logic" scope (proofs) so I'm not sure if it has a more flexible meaning in informal language use.
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- exabrial 6mo agoGosh how generous of malta government officials to transfer those tax earnings straight to the 1%ers pockets
- rchaud 6mo agoThe EU is probably footing the bill for most of it. Part of the funding Malta receives goes towards "digital projects" along with green tech and SME support.
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- sharpshadow 6mo agoIt’s a voluntary two hour online AI course with 1 year ChatGPT premium reward. Getting AI basics to the people with playground.
- emsign 6mo agoGetting free data from every Maltese citizen rather.
- Rohunyyy 6mo agoData 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 ?
- dvfjsdhgfv 6mo agoOur 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.
- HKH2 6mo agoVLC, Blender, OBS Studio, Krita...
- hello8402 6mo ago> Getting free data from every Maltese citizen rather EU software also collects your data At least American software is good If you’re gonna give up your data, at least use the better American software
- rvnx 6mo agoGive your data to your local police and have a bad experience, or to a remote country with a better tech and that doesn’t care about you. Mhhh.
- layer8 6mo ago
- irishcoffee 6mo agoNauseating. I run local models. They're fun to play with. I get a bit of a dopamine hit when it works. They're selling addiction. This is fucking disgusting.
- hbarka 6mo agoNext, maybe Anthropic can make Sicily an offer it can’t refuse.
- nixass 6mo agoMalta is a country, Sicily is a region
- yellow_lead 6mo agoA country is a region.
- nixass 6mo agoYes the continents too
- gurjeet 6mo agoI believe GP's intent was to point out that a company can get into an agreement with a government (make an offer they can't refuse), but a company cannot get a "region" to sign an agreement/contract with them.
- layer8 6mo agoRegional governments exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Sicily https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Sicily
- ashirviskas 6mo agoWhat region is UK?
- dgellow 6mo agoThat whole thread is absurd, but if I would have to answer I would say Great Britain is the name of the region/group of islands? Open to be wrong, I know little about the UK
- emsign 6mo agoWTF? Corruption?
- KnuthIsGod 6mo agoMalta 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-corruption-daphne-caruana-galizia-murder https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/03/malta-...
- justshutup123 6mo ago[flagged]
- gmerc 6mo agoThanks Ivan
- bingaweek 6mo agoThe overt hatred people here feel for Russians would make an antisemite blush. This is on the same level as calling random people Schlomo.
- bestham 6mo agoI think you are mistaking hatred toward the Kremlin for hatred toward the Russian people.
- bakugo 6mo agoPlease explain how calling random people stereotypical Russian names specifically represents hatred toward the Kremlin and not Russians in general.
- wqaatwt 6mo agoIt’s only acceptable to make fun of countries like France or Britain etc. rather than developmentally challenged ones like Russia..
- lpolovets 6mo agoIt'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.
- aaronbrethorst 6mo agoMalta 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.
- layer8 6mo agoOnly by around half a tenth of a percent.
- foxfired 6mo agoWe 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." The developers in the room asked about codex, the instructor said she wasn't a developer. We did get a certificate though. There was nothing they could teach that you couldn't learn by using the free version in your own time. Whatever they are doing with the Maltese government is just to increase the monthly active user count.
- altmanaltman 6mo agoThe fact they have to resort to these tactics does not bide well for the company that wants to create AGI or go bust.
- GCUMstlyHarmls 6mo agoOh I don't know, it seems like a good step forward towards regulatory capture. First partner, then certify, then require the certification. A limited regional beta, like launching your app in New Zealand first.
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- MattDamonSpace 6mo agoHalf of people are below average, these classes raise the floor they don’t expand the ceiling
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- netfortius 6mo agoFree data from citizens of a country, to feed the AI beast - who wouldn't want to be part of that? /s
- chm02 6mo agoSome key data points, about Malta: Malta is among Europe's leading adopters. The country ranks first for workplace AI usage and third overall for general AI adoption. Beyond AI, Malta also has one of the highest rates of social media usage in Europe. This initiative is less about AI literacy or OpenAI and more reflective of the Malta government's policy of making technology accessible across all society. It's not the first time either, in the early 2000s a similar partnership with Microsoft which provided heavily subsidized microsoft office licenses.
- bwb 6mo agoHow is press freedom in Malta? Was everyone ever held responsible for the car bombing of Daphne?
- bazzmt 6mo agoPress freedom is absolutely not an issue. Certainly much much better than, say, the UK's where getting arrested for a tweet is common. Regarding DCG's case: trial of the prime suspect due in July I believe. DCG's tragic case was a one-off. Attacks on democracy are much more common and frequent in other Western countries.
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- frabcus 6mo agoReporters without Borders recently released Press Freedom Index 2026 puts Malta 67th, and the UK at 18. So no, certainly not much better - although looking at some of the historic data, it was better e.g. in 2010. https://rsf.org/en/index https://rsf.org/en/index
- nlitened 6mo agoYeah US is 64th lol. Totally unbiased
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- mmusc 6mo agoGeneral elections are currently happening in Malta. This is purely a vote for us will give you stuff scheme....
- lpcvoid 6mo ago[dead]
- qsera 6mo agoBad idea..
- pera 6mo agoI remember back in 2018 during peak crypto bubble the same class nick named Malta as the "Blockchain Island"
- rvnx 6mo agoWell it’s still the low-tax promise (non-dom status)
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- zombot 6mo agoWow, a whole country to spy on, for free. Life as a tech oligarch must be sweet.
- magenta4 6mo agoShady 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.
- trvz 6mo agoToo 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.
- wartywhoa23 6mo ago> Too many people are stupid-stubborn and not even willing to pay 5$ a month. No, not gonna pay yet another tax, mr. Taxman.
- jonplackett 6mo ago> for one year So it’s basically I giant government-sponsored free trial.
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- bekon 6mo agoRaping taxpayer with his own money is not Capitalism. Today I will remind you.
- torginus 6mo agoI am worried that a govt would encourage their own citizens to use a foreign service that uploads every professional and personal interactions to an AI companies servers, presumably to be trained on.
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- sschueller 6mo agoIt's insane. They would be better of purchasing hardware and running deepseek locally. At least the usage data would stay sovereign even if the model was trained somewhere else.
- layer8 6mo agoOpenAI has to abide by the GDPR in the EU. The worry should be that US agencies can compel OpenAI to silently violate it.
- torginus 6mo agoModelled after the Chinese curse, there should be be the European curse that reads "May the only thing that protects your private life be GDPR"
- hleszek 6mo agoI just completed the course and a big part of it was in fact to warn not to use it to send private data.
- zkmon 6mo agoI 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.
- nsonha 6mo ago> 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.
- zkmon 6mo agoChatGPt is not a facts/news service. It's output is canned by it's system prompt. Infact it's cut-off dates far more into the past compared to other AI services. So the "news" it dishes could be outdated unless it decides search web, in which case it can't be better than google.
- nsonha 6mo agois your comment from last year? Because ChatGPT now to me is just a machine that translates prompts to web searches. It's better than Google for unobscure results (which is the majority of searches) and also because there are no ads (yet). You can make the argument that it's not better than Google's AI Mode (not Google Search), but I personally prefer ChatGPT/Grok than AI Mode. Original point stands that AI is useful and better than manual searches. Do you think the average people rigorously query multiple angles and carefully read every one of the google results, to synthesize a well rounded viewpoint on any given topic? No, but with LLMs they can do that in one prompt.
- zkmon 6mo agoStill, what premium features of the Plus service are needed for a citizen?
- VortexLain 6mo agoThis pretty much means OpenAI becomes a monopoly in Malta. Seems anti-competitive.
- Ylpertnodi 6mo agoPoliticians gotta politic.
- gurjeet 6mo agoI wanted to see how they'd ensure only a Maltese citizen can use it. It's gated behind something called eID. > Who can register: > > Maltese citizens and residents > Must have an active eID account > No previous AI knowledge is required From https://mdia.gov.mt/services/ai-for-all-ai-ghal-kulhadd/ https://mdia.gov.mt/services/ai-for-all-ai-ghal-kulhadd/
- wartywhoa23 6mo agoChain and shackle work in tandem.
- kriro 6mo agoSeems like textbook Inside the Tornado marketing. Pick a country as a bowling pin, show some success, go for a different/bigger country. Presumably cover EU first this way. Be the first to offer all-citizens licenses.
- CrzyLngPwd 6mo agoThe first hit is always free.
- wartywhoa23 6mo ago2030: OneOpenEye partners with One World Government to enforce mandatory usage of AI on worldizens and outlaw AI dodging.
- bossyTeacher 6mo agoI wonder who is paying the bill for a nationwide OpenAI subscription. Is OpenAI doing this so they can show present (and potential) shareholders an increase in the number of users and ask for more money?
- hansmayer 6mo agoSo, they talked the government of Malta into picking up the tab for ChatShit-Generator ?
- romanovcode 6mo agoUgh, gives bad flashbacks of when Facebook did free access to all citizens in particular countries. Later only to harvest data and manipulate elections.
- ulrischa 6mo agoI wished Germany would do something similar
- tariky 6mo agoCan I register using VPN malta IP to get free plus?
- hirako2000 6mo agoProbably, if you pass the soon to come age verification process, via some Apple or Google certified device.
- hleszek 6mo agoNo, it works using Malta eID identification system which needs you to be a citizen or a resident.
- hirako2000 6mo agoIs it just me or genAi is starting to look like a massive surveillance program? On the taxpayer money. If you force me to pay taxes, and you offer me free access to inference, I don't see why I would run my local, privacy-focus model.
- nalekberov 6mo agoNot sure who is more corrupt these days: governments or big corporations. What’s dangerous here is people will eventually stop thinking critically altogether, about anything, and their view of the world will be based on what they are shown on AI apps.
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- trilogic 6mo agoOutrageous, Malta is Europe, it needs an European provider, this is an European security issue. Malta need to align to European values as by agreement with EU.
- Andrex 6mo agoYou're not going far enough. Closed software has no place in government whatsoever. It should all be open and/or locally run, and ideally GPL/AGPL licensed. It is another level of stupidity/moral failing to use closed software supplied from outside your nation, though.
- trilogic 6mo agoThere is nothing money can´t buy, moral included. That do not change stupidity, so I am with you there.
- chaitanyya 6mo agoThis reminds me of the free internet Facebook tried to launch in India to kill net neutrality Thank god people protested against it and made them drop the plan.
- TomGarden 6mo agoAnyone else feel like they're going insane sometimes? It's so simple, everyone on HN knows this, but I want to scream at every non-technical person "these tools are not reliable! You can't trust them!" They are so useful but the failure modes need to be hammered into everyone at the very start of each onboarding. It would be totally rational as a layperson to just ignore AI and just check in every few months to ask "is it reliable yet".
- a3m_router_dev 6mo agotest content for HN
- noIdeaTheSecond 6mo agoIs Malta a corrupt country?
- HDBaseT 6mo agoModerately corrupt, slightly higher than the average nation.