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I cannot think of a legitimate basis to discriminate by country.
You've apparently never interfaced with lawyers before. A startup is free to release globally, because nobody will care if they spit out something false, there's no money to extract for penalties and fines. If Google's Bard says one thing wrong in the wrong country, it has the potential to cost the company hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars. In places like the EU, governments see Google as a giant piggy…
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It looks like it also uses a 7th design of the accounts popdown, and only allows one google account. Literally no one at Google understands how accounts work: https://grumpy.website/post/0PU1U2r3v (this was 5 years ago, nothing has changed)
The new design is already in Drive and Docs - And it's just a new UI for the same embedded account switcher that's existed. Odd that it prevents switching, but it's probably enough to deter at least 75% of people trying to sign up multiple accounts for the waitlist.
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You've apparently never interfaced with lawyers before. A startup is free to release globally, because nobody will care if they spit out something false, there's no money to extract for penalties and fines. If Google's Bard says one thing wrong in the wrong country, it has the potential to cost the company hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars. In places like the EU, governments see Google as a giant piggy…
Yes, like that startup 'Microsoft' that launched Bing Chat globally a few months ago.
Microsoft could completely kill Bing in the EU with very little effect to their bottom line.
But you do bring up a good point. Why be so conservative if Bard isn't even tied in with Google search?
My only guess is Google turning into a global whipping boy for fines has made them trigger shy.
These limited closed betas seem to really kill hype on a lot of their products, which leads to them not having a lot of use, then google killing them...
"We're starting to start the beginning of letting people try so they can now apply to our waitlist so they can be emailed that it's their turn to try Bard, the AI experiment."
"We're starting to start the beginning of letting people try so they can now apply to our waitlist so they can be emailed that it's their turn to try Bard, the AI experiment."
Can I be part of the delegation that will be discussing the formation of a committee to institute the process of allowing people to sign up to be waitlisted for the consideration for the opportunity to potentially begin to start seeing how to use Bard?
LOL, yeah sure, the world doesn't wait. This is dead on arrival.