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.

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.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    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
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      1 year ago

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

    • esty@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      The Canadian privacy watchdog does things? I doubt bard is any more data invasive than meta platforms and they get a pass…