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.
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.
I was under the impression that the EU has pretty strict privacy laws and oversight. Is Canada stricter?
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.
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.
The Canadian privacy watchdog does things? I doubt bard is any more data invasive than meta platforms and they get a pass…
Man, whatever. Fuck big corporations anyway.
Google “do no evil” my ass. Lately I’ve become very tired of all these tech companies who think they control the internet. That’s not how internet works. I think they forgot how it really works.
And this AI shit? It’s kind of disappointing. And the reason for that is because of how corporations are trying to exploit it to maximise their profits just like everything/everybody else.
Technology in general, including AI, was supposed to make our lives easier. Make us need to work less to produce just as much or more. The goal was to have a utopia where nobody would have to work anymore and technology would take care of everything for us. But NOOOOOOO. We’re still working harder than ever just trying to get by, and if we can be replace by technology, then too fucking bad. You end up poor, homeless and you’re told by the same wealthy people who fired you and who are benefiting from technology to “pick yourself up by your bootstraps”.
That sounds like a good thing.
Finally some privacy laws working in our favor.
I see no problem with this.
