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Re: Bard now open to use

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Just as everyone is getting tired of LLMs and realizing they're not as useful as they initially seemed

I don’t think everyone is getting tired of LLMs. Citation needed. Personally I use chatgpt everyday for all kinds of stuff, it’s just a part of my workflow now

Same. I'm getting bored of LLMs in the same way I'm bored of electricity or running water.

Re: Bard now open to use

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post #41
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in South Africa and I'm able to use it. Not connected to a VPN, and I've just checked that my public IP is my static IP address. They announced that it's now available in 180+ countries in English.

I'm in Canada (apparently like MegaDeKay) and unable to use it. Either that 180+ country rollout isn't complete, or I guess they have something against Canada('s laws) in particular. Edit: Amusingly using a VPS provided by google as a proxy is enough to get around this.

Typically, Canada, among other things, requires localization in French to satisfy the laws in Quebec.

Re: Bard now open to use

#123

> 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.

"Google Bard now open to use..." in the USA only, apparently. At least it is not working north of the border yet.

Works in Morocco

Re: Bard now open to use

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If that worries Google, they should fix the cookie options on the Google I/O page on the frontpage. It is wildly noncompliant, and Google should be sued over it like they were over the same thing in YouTube in France.

> If that worries Google, they should fix the cookie options on the Google I/O page on the frontpage. > It is wildly noncompliant, and Google should be sued over it like they were over the same thing in YouTube in France. this really reinforces GP's point

It does not since Google is maliciously and purposefully non-compliant with that one. It instead reinforces the point that they don't care too much about being sued.

Re: Bard now open to use

#125

I asked it what ports `nmap -sn` and `nmap -F` scan. It correctly stated that `-sn` does not scan ports. It then stated that `-F` also uses a ping scan (false) and does not scan any ports (also false). When I quoted the man page on -F, it said this: > You're right. The nmap man page does say that `nmap -F` scans fewer ports than the default scan. However, it does not say that `nmap -F` scans any ports at all. 1. It's…

Sounds great for passive-agressive nitpicking in pointless arguments!

Re: Bard now open to use

#128
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.

I'm always surprised when people that work at company X talks about practices at company X.

Even innocent sounding replies can surface later and cause legal or PR headaches for the company. If one person out of 10,000 says something about XYZ, it is way too easy for it to taken as the truth, adding even more burden the legal/PR problems that every big company is constantly managing.

Re: Bard now open to use

#129

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What absolute nonsense. This is a list of countries just off the top of my head that has sued Google in the last decade: United States European Union (which consists of multiple member states) Australia France Germany Italy Spain Russia India Brazil South Korea Turkey Canada

The members of the EU are countries, not states (& the EU itself is a political/economic alliance, not a country).

"State" refers to "any sovereign polity". The US is weird here in that it pretends it's internal political divisions are sovereigns and refers to them as states, but that doesn't make every other country in the world not a state.

Definition from wikitionary (but nothing is special about this choice of dictionary, you should find a similar definition in any dictionary): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/state#Noun

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