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submitted 1 year ago by weedproblem@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

Canada has been left out of a recent expansion of Google's artificial intelligence-powered chatbot known as Bard as the big tech giant continues its fight with the federal government over the Online News Act.

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[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 74 points 1 year ago

The Bard exclusion isn’t due to the news thing; it’s due to Canada having privacy laws and a privacy watchdog that actually pays attention. If Google expanded to Canada, they’d have to answer a bunch of questions it appears they’d rather avoid.

[-] Afiefh@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I was under the impression that the EU has pretty strict privacy laws and oversight. Is Canada stricter?

[-] 8275232@feddit.ch 18 points 1 year ago

No. Canada might have different laws, but they are no more stringent than the EU or California. Surely there is differing regulations, and might be the market size that had it dropped in priority.

[-] bane_killgrind@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

This is right, it's not hard to imagine that compliance is part of a ROI equation along with number of users.

EU has a population of 700 million vs Canada's 40.

[-] JshKlsn@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Excuse me. Canada is gaining like 100K new people per day. That's 41 mili.. 42 m... 45 million to you!

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