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Re: Bard now open to use

#22

> Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned! When Google was a startup and even a decade in they managed to treat everyone the same. Today this has went backwards like everything else Google it seems.

No, that never been true. People in the US have always been prioritised, just like Google Chrome users always been prioritised too.

Re: Bard now open to use

#23
> Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!

Lol, I'm in Germany :D I was wondering where all the people saying the same came from. Apparently not any country with an embargo, that was my theory.

Re: Bard now open to use

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post #16

> Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned! When Google was a startup and even a decade in they managed to treat everyone the same. Today this has went backwards like everything else Google it seems.

The problem of being a massive company is that everyone wants to sue you. They could want to sue you for money. Or maybe sue you because they think you are bad. Whatever the reason, when you're Google's size, you need to make sure you're compliant with every local regulation before you launch anything or someone may come after you. Googler, opinions are my own.

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Re: Bard now open to use

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post #16

> Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned! When Google was a startup and even a decade in they managed to treat everyone the same. Today this has went backwards like everything else Google it seems.

The problem of being a massive company is that everyone wants to sue you. They could want to sue you for money. Or maybe sue you because they think you are bad. Whatever the reason, when you're Google's size, you need to make sure you're compliant with every local regulation before you launch anything or someone may come after you. Googler, opinions are my own.

Such a US-centric way of thinking. Not every country is as sue-happy as the US.

Re: Bard now open to use

#29
post #8

Bard isn’t supported for this account. If you’re signed in to a Google Workspace account, your admin may not have enabled access to Bard. My vanity domain. Now off to find my admin credentials and likely discover that the workspace setting isn't available yet.

You'll have to enable

Apps > Additional Google services > Settings for Early Access Apps > Core Data Access Permissions -> Allow users at your organization to access Google Workspace and Customer Data using Early Access apps.

This doesn't enable Bard per-se, but enables your Workspace for these new AI things, which should include Bard.

I can't access Bard on my domain account due to the existing country limitations (Germany), and I haven't tried over VPN (which I won't try).

Re: Bard now open to use

#30

Everyone complaining, don't worry, it's really nothing special compared to ChatGPT-3.5.

If it's nothing compared to GPT3.5 which is bad when compared to GPT4, why did they even release it?

I've found it useful for explaining some hairy shell code when ChatGPT wouldn't load for me.
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