As an EU citizen, is this an indication that it is about time to leave google services?
GenChess
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#162Nice idea but horrible execution. Playing from this angle gives me a headache.
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#163As an EU citizen, is this an indication that it is about time to leave google services?
"This tool is not available to users under the age of 18 or in certain countries or regions."
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
As per usual. If we weren't such a big market we'd already be left behind by everyone else due to all the bullshit happening in the EU legal-wise.
You are generalizing extremly without any substinance... 1. its Googles decision to not allow this demo globally. Its a Chess Demo, what EU legal issue do you think makes this a problem? Probably NON... And yes we are not America. Our privacy is getting better protected then that of americans. Move if you don't like it or at least take the time and effort to state clearly what you don't like about certain EU regulati…
I'm allowed to ask for all of the data they have from me. This obviously includes all chess games which obviously is a pain in the ass for a dumb demo that will no doubt be archived next week in some obscure place.
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are generalizing extremly without any substinance... 1. its Googles decision to not allow this demo globally. Its a Chess Demo, what EU legal issue do you think makes this a problem? Probably NON... And yes we are not America. Our privacy is getting better protected then that of americans. Move if you don't like it or at least take the time and effort to state clearly what you don't like about certain EU regulati…
When Meta prevented the EU from using meta.ai or even downloading its vision models, I sunk my head in the AI legistation. Here, I am honestly not sure which part they rely on, to say that what they made might be unlawful. The closest thing I found for Meta was that “emotion recognition systems” are classified as high-risk (paragraph 54), and high-risk systems must have their training data disclosed (Art 11(1))[0]. I…
It's simple. Big tech doesn't like regulation. By pretending the regulation won't let them release "all these cool things" they can turn public opinion against regulation.
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#166This is not available in many countries. Is it due to legal issues, to preserve server capacity or a marketing gag?
It's legal issues.
Not that there are actually legal blockers. It's just that for the team/person creating this thing, it's too much work to pesker legal to find out if there are legal blockers. Legal is going to CYA on these things anyway.
There is a group of countries where it's "probably fine", so those countries get to try demos like these. There are other countries where the policy is "talk to legal", and nobody wants to talk to legal. So those countries don't get access to the demo.
I'm not involved here, but I've seen these issues play out quite often lately.
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#167As an EU citizen, is this an indication that it is about time to leave google services?
"This tool is not available to users under the age of 18 or in certain countries or regions."
Exactly. I'm not under the age of 18 and is located in the EU region, thus cannot use this service for no other obvious reason. I guess Google feels it is more convenient to just block EU users from services like this than it is to try to comply with EU regulations.
Re: GenChess
#168now do battle chess
That was my first thought too, strong Battle Chess vibes!
For those who never played it, Battle Chess was a chess game from 1988. It had one different: when a piece took another piece, it would play a canned animation (gruesome, funny)
Wildly popular at the time. Some screenshots:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/1950/battle-chess/screenshots...
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#169This is freakin awesome but do the creators even play chess? Playing chess from that viewing angle is unpleasant as hell. Imagine putting all your work into creating an amazing demo and then drowning it with one design decision. Edit: Ok I see that you can change the view in settings. They should make that option more visible.
The AI gave me normal looking pieces and the opponent wild fruit baskets and stuff.
I was basically playing blindfolded chess
Re: GenChess
#170This is freakin awesome but do the creators even play chess? Playing chess from that viewing angle is unpleasant as hell. Imagine putting all your work into creating an amazing demo and then drowning it with one design decision. Edit: Ok I see that you can change the view in settings. They should make that option more visible.
I'm not good at chess, I only played as far as I needed to to verify that it supported en passant. It does.
I was not able to trigger a draw by repetition and I also doubt the 50 move rule is implemented