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“Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!”
by bbotond 3y ago
“Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!”
- sintezcs 3y agoSame for me, I’m in Estonia :(
- corgihamlet 3y agoYou can use a VPN to use an American connection, it doesn't matter where your Google account is registered.
- bbotond 3y agoThanks, I’ll try it! (I’m in Hungary)
- airgapstopgap 3y agoNot necessarily American, you just have to avoid EU and, I believe, Russia/China/Cuba etc.
- column 3y agoI'm in Switzerland and Bard is locked out, we do not go by EU laws because we are not part of the EU. We have plenty of bilateral deals but still.
- GTP 3y agoBut don't you sill have privacy laws very similar to the GDPR?
- pavlov 3y agoIn practice Switzerland adopts EU law with minor revisions because doing otherwise would lock Swiss businesses out of the EU internal market. The Swiss version of GDPR is coming in September: https://www.ey.com/en_ch/law/a-new-era-for-data-protection-in-switzerland-are-you-ready https://www.ey.com/en_ch/law/a-new-era-for-data-protection-i...
- rxyz 3y agoGoogle's passion for region locking is insane to me
- bwb 3y agoIts a legal thing, not something they want to do
- EForEndeavour 3y agoWhat law prohibits Google from making Bard available outside the USA?
- simse 3y agoIt's blocked in the EU because they don't want to/can't comply with GDPR.
- flyvemaskine 3y ago[dead]
- anticensor 3y agoIt is not GDPR, it is available in some countries outside the EU with GDPR-like privacy regimes.
- leucineleprec0n 3y agoThis is naïve though. Regulation — especially such as this — has to be enforced and there is obviously room to over and under interpret the text of the law on a whim, or varying fines. OAI knows this and looking at the EU lately, what they’re doing is wise.
- PinguTS 3y agoWhich is interesting, because if they can't comply within the EU, then how do they comply outside of the EU. With that I mean, if they have concerns that there is private data of EU citizens somewhere in that, then that is also in there for users outside of the EU. That said, they do not comply with GDPR anyway. If that its not the case, then they could also enable it for users within the EU.
- scottfr 3y agoThe Bard model (Bison) is available without region lock as part of Google Cloud Platform. In addition to being able to call it via an API, they have a similar developer UI to the OpenAI playground to interactively experiment with it. https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative/language/create/text https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative/langua...
- lee101 3y ago[dead]
- taosx 3y agoThank you!
- sumedh 3y agoIs that free or do you have to pay? Also do you need to change the options like Token Limit etc?
- pverghese 3y agoIt's completely free. No tokens nothing.
- Gasp0de 3y agoBut it can't be used unless I enable billing, which I am not willing to do after reading all the horror stories about people getting billed thousands overnight. I'm not willing to take the risk that I forget some script and it keeps creating charges.
- skinnymuch 3y agoUse a CC or debit that can limit charges. Privacy.com is a generic one. There’s others. Also Capital One, Bank of America, Apple Card and maybe some others have some semblance of control over temporary CCs. Ideally one would want to be able to have a cap on the amount that can be spent in a given period. Thanks for this! I had a temporary Cap One card on my cloud accounts. I’m going to switch them to Privacy.com ones to limit amount if I can’t find another solution.