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Comment by anthropodie | Hacker News Reader

Yesterday Google and now Microsoft both announcing their own chat bot integration and yet there is not a single link where I can try out either one of them.

What is this new trend of announcing things as if it's available for general use and then hiding it behind invites or not making it available at all.

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someone posted this above but you can join the waitlist here https://bing.com/new

404 and redirects to homepage.

Off topic: Anyone knows how to get rid of wall of news on bing homepage? I tried disabling it but it still loads it and makes it visible if I scroll down.

that's weird. I was able to join the waitlist. maybe it's rolling out slowly across the globe?

The down-arrow to the right of the spam hid it from view for me.

This just sends me to https://www.bing.com/?form=REDIRERR

It’s US-only currently. You can use a VPN.

I am in the US.

it just 404s

It worked for me after trying a few times. Not in the US.

It's nothing new. Remember Gmail invites?

The silliest part is that little OpenAI launched a public service and Google / Microsoft (!) can't launch something publicly available.

If they were worried about getting a bad start with the general public or scaling concerns they could have easily put it somewhere that only enthusiasts (e.g. HN) would find it. But no, instead...announcement and nothing usable.

Call me back when I can try this, Bing.

I haven't been able to use ChatGPT all morning. Just says it's at capacity.

Remember Tesla's FSD? This is not a new trend.

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