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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 74 points 2 years ago (9 children)

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.

[–] esty 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] adespoton 10 points 2 years ago

A lot of people seem to have misunderstood what I said.

The Canadian watchdog asks questions Google likely doesn’t want asked.

It’s not about penalties, it’s about asking questions that others might then also ask.

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