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> This Google Account isn’t supported > Bard does not currently support Google Workspace accounts or when our systems indicate you may be under 18. Learn more Google: 15 years of punishment for being a loyal Dasher/ Google Apps/GSuite/Google Workspace user.
Use VPN. It was easy to trick and get on the waitlist.
> Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned! Sigh. Google never learns. By the time they add support for using this in my country, there's no reason for me to use it anymore as competitors have already swept in. It's the same playbook with every US-only launch: 1. get everybody hyped up 2. make it accessible to only a minor subset of people but advertise it as a "launch" or "open beta" or whatever 3.…
It didn't know the difference between a month and a week, and when I asked it a coding question, it said "I'm just a language model, so I can't help you with that.".
Lol, lmao even.
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Non-US countries like to fine US tech companies and create regulations ect. which we are already seeing in the EU wrt AI. So it makes sense why they don't want to be involved in that kind of thing before there is even a real product. That is, there is no upside for them aside from market share, which I agree is important but does not alone explain Google's product failures, about which much has already been written.
It's not like the EU is specifically targeting US companies with their consumer protection regulations. Those things are considered completely normal protections for consumers in Europe. It's just that 99% of US big tech companies are very anti-consumer and have gotten away with it in the US in the past. But that also seems to be changing over time.
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> They create the software for weapons If you're thinking of Project Maven, that ended in 2019, so I would use past tense. > were part of PRISM As I understand it, the NSA was snooping on Google's internal traffic between services. Google was not complicit, at least there's no evidence of that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM "PRISM collects stored internet communications based on demands made to internet companies such as Google LLC"
If you're thinking of PRISM itself, I'm not sure in what sense Google is "part of" it? Google sometimes provides data in response to court orders, but there's not much they can do about that.
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Not trying to be rude, but when you're a company the size of Google - that's had MASSIVE lawsuits - you can't just willy-nilly release products globally.
Exactly. You have to go through legal review in every country, is this breaking an accessibility law in Australia or a copyright law in Argentina or a localization law in Canada or an antitrust law in the EU? That's just how it works. That stuff takes months, so do you prefer to withhold it from the US until that's all completed? In a competitive environment that moves quickly, that's not an option.
Which lawyer you get seems to be a sort of dice roll that perhaps one could understand if one were a lawyer.
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Except that ChatGPT is such a bad name for a product. I don't think Bard is much better but I don't think ChatGPT is going to be a household name.
CatGPT is a better name than ChatGPT, perhaps that’s why it’s taking off (allegedly) in France.
- heavy administration
- schools have a strong emphasis on essays
- getting a job often implies writing a cover letter
And since French is not easy, so many people find it to be a barrier to entry.
While I love GPT for quickly giving me code snippets of things I would take minutes to come up with, my friends have this problem for the regular day-to-day language.
I never noticed it before, because it's so natural to write to me, that I never have to think to hard to express anything. And because I've been a freelance for so long, doing formal writing is fluid. I know all the canned phrases by heart. The polite words to end the message.
But I came to realize: they don't.
As soon as I showed them chatgpt, their eyes light up. The killer feature for them was not the ability to answer complicated questions or save on search, nor was it the possibility of getting a summary. It was producing boring letter-like messages, with no typo.
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Works great for bookmarks.
For bookmarks use https://bard.google.com/?authuser=whatever@gmail.com
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At least Google has an account switcher. I’m looking at you, AWS. (I’m currently launching a project on Google Cloud, and I’m picking it over AWS primarily because the AWS console’s account management is so terrible [0]. There are only so many hours in the day, and the whole point of paying a 4-40x markup for the cloud is to reduce workload.) Not that Google’s account switcher has ever been particularly good. [0] Not…
I use separate Chrome profiles to switch AWS accounts. Also better to have no browser extensions installed when doing anything sensitive.