Google’s Bard is not available in the EU, afaik.

They even made it unavailable in Europe full stop, except for UK, where it was available from the start. Switzerland, Turkey, Norway etc. These countries don't even have GDPR, which is an EU law.

The internet most definitely has 'regions' when it comes to laws and resulting potential liability.

Unfortunately, the internet is getting more and more balkanized. What people see in one country is becoming completely different from what people see in another country, and often things are completely inaccessible between countries. Not to mention that even within countries it's becoming impossible to see the same things as someone else.

Wow, TIL "balkanize" is a word. I love that!

I thought this idiocy would end with the failure of DVD Regions (remember those?), a lesson would be learned and we would all move on.

But now I see this kind of crap from companies pretending to be at the forefront of technology and it has me not just frustrated, but worried.

Do people at OpenAI realize how much bad will this kind of segregation causes? Because make no mistake, this is segregation: you divide your users into "better" ones and "worse" ones.

Someone will grab and share the .ipa eventually (link appreciated). Gotta love shitty pointless bureaucracy.