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Anthropic's Claude is still not available in Canada either. Anyone have insight into why its difficult to bring these AI models to Canada when on the surface it

Anthropic's Claude is still not available in Canada either. Anyone have insight into why its difficult to bring these AI models to Canada when on the surface its political and legal landscape isn't all that different from the US?

llm_nerd 3y ago
Google's embargo seemed to relate to their battle with the Canadian government over news. Given that they settled on that I'd expect its availability very soon. Anthropic is a bit weird and it almost seems more like lazy gating. It's available in the US and UK, but no EU, no Canada, no Australia.
mpg33 3y ago
Right but Bard is literally available in 230 countries and territories...but not Canada. https://support.google.com/bard/answer/13575153?hl=en#:~:text=Bard%20is%20currently%20available%20in,regulations%20and%20our%20AI%20principles https://support.google.com/bard/answer/13575153?hl=en#:~:tex.... We are being singled out because of the Government's Online News Act for tech companies to pay for news links
- notatoad 3y ago
  that wouldn't explain why Anthropic is excluding canada. I'm guessing the online news act is a contributor, but only to a more general conclusion of our content laws being complicated (CanCon, language laws, pipeda erasure rules, the new right to be forgotten, etc) and our country simply doesn't have enough people to be worth the effort of figuring out what's legal and what isn't.
jefftk 3y ago
Perhaps they're being cautious after https://www.reuters.com/technology/canada-launch-probe-into-openai-over-privacy-concerns-2023-05-25/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/canada-launch-probe-into-... ?