Re:Google Bard blocks all European Union countries
by sclarisse on Friday May 12, 2023 @08:23AM
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There’s a value judgment in the business-value sense. Once there’s meaningful revenue from it, or similar, it’s far more likely to be made available there. Until then it’s a business risk and a compliance-auditing expense for nothing.
Also a value judgment: the Europeans in this discussion who are confident it’s a sign Google is treacherous.
Re:Google Bard blocks all European Union countries
by d0gsg0w00f on Friday May 12, 2023 @08:33AM
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OpenAI also hasn't been fined repeatedly yet.
Re:Google Bard blocks all European Union countries
by mensetmanusman on Friday May 12, 2023 @08:39AM
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once they have a few billion on the bank it will happen.
Re:Google Bard blocks all European Union countries
by rsynnott on Friday May 12, 2023 @09:15AM
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GDPR fines are based on revenue, not assets. But to an extent this is correct; big companies are much more scared of the GDPR than small companies just because the amounts involved get so huge.
Re:Google Bard blocks all European Union countries
by jefftk on Friday May 12, 2023 @08:27AM
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> OpenAI finds it worthwhile. So I guess they are working out pretty well.
The trade-off is pretty different for OpenAI because the maximum penalty for violating the GDPR is 4% of worldwide annual revenue. Google has a lot of revenue, from unrelated projects, and it makes sense to me that they would be reluctant to risk that on Bard. OpenAI doesn't, so the threat is effectively far smaller for them.
This seems to be an inferiority on Google’s part and they couldn’t work out support at launch. I expect they will eventually add support, they’re just lagging a bit. It’s not some value judgement.