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"Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!" Can't wait to ask "Bard" what's the rationale to "not support" a service like this based on my co

"Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!" Can't wait to ask "Bard" what's the rationale to "not support" a service like this based on my country.. These "global companies" are so global regarding their revenue and tax schemes, but when something is different than the "business as usual" they turn into hyper local shops. It's just an observation, I'm not really that mad and desperate to try their "chat-bot" since I'm sure it will be as exciting as eating cardboard.

superfrank 4y ago
Not sure where you are, but I always assume that means, "We're doing something that some might consider sketchy and don't want to dedicate resources to figuring out if it's legal outside the US".
- Kalium 4y ago
  I suspect it's more often "We haven't checked yet, and Legal prefers we be cautious until they have time" rather than actively thinking it's something some might consider sketchy.
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  - superfrank 4y ago
    Yeah, you're right. Sketcky is probably the wrong way to describe it. I more just mean something we haven't done before/don't know about.
- dragonwriter 4y ago
  With the slow-roll waitlist things, I think the geographical limits are in part, at least, a way of narrowing the applicant space to reduce the wait time, given the limited pace at which they are willing to expand the user pool.
- PedroBatista 4y ago
  It's usually by cultural proximity/who are your cousins more than a legal thing. It usually goes by "US,Canada,UK most times Australia, then NZ when they remember, then Ireland and let's start to deal with the nordics and Germany.."
  - mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y ago
    Idk, Norway is usually last because we have the absolute gall of requiring that foreign companies selling services here have to pay sales tax. Not being in the EU doesn't help either.
vineyardmike 4y ago
I don’t know what country you’re in, but at previous jobs, we did country by country rollout because it took time to do localizations and translations. Even at FAANG jobs, we hired contractors to translate things out of en-us, so that could be a factor for Google to get this out. Also everyone else’s point about limiting legal discussions. They’re probably using this data for training purposes and don’t want to deal with European laws. If they’re hosting the data in limited data centers, they may also have to deal with data locality laws.

superfrank 4y ago

Not sure where you are, but I always assume that means, "We're doing something that some might consider sketchy and don't want to dedicate resources to figuring out if it's legal outside the US".

Kalium 4y ago
I suspect it's more often "We haven't checked yet, and Legal prefers we be cautious until they have time" rather than actively thinking it's something some might consider sketchy.
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- superfrank 4y ago
  Yeah, you're right. Sketcky is probably the wrong way to describe it. I more just mean something we haven't done before/don't know about.
dragonwriter 4y ago
With the slow-roll waitlist things, I think the geographical limits are in part, at least, a way of narrowing the applicant space to reduce the wait time, given the limited pace at which they are willing to expand the user pool.
PedroBatista 4y ago
It's usually by cultural proximity/who are your cousins more than a legal thing. It usually goes by "US,Canada,UK most times Australia, then NZ when they remember, then Ireland and let's start to deal with the nordics and Germany.."
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y ago
  Idk, Norway is usually last because we have the absolute gall of requiring that foreign companies selling services here have to pay sales tax. Not being in the EU doesn't help either.

vineyardmike 4y ago

I don’t know what country you’re in, but at previous jobs, we did country by country rollout because it took time to do localizations and translations. Even at FAANG jobs, we hired contractors to translate things out of en-us, so that could be a factor for Google to get this out. Also everyone else’s point about limiting legal discussions. They’re probably using this data for training purposes and don’t want to deal with European laws. If they’re hosting the data in limited data centers, they may also have to deal with data locality laws.