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Comment by npalli | Hacker News Reader

“ Our site is not available in your region at this time.”

Companies have to be very careful with AI products in international markets and even some US states because there are a number of different AI legislations in that need to be checked.

This is why cutting edge models are delayed in certain regions.

The work to verify and document all of the compliance isn’t worth it for various small demos, so they probably marked it as only allowed in the US and certain regions.

Getting this from the US

I get

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should I click on accept?

Same. Texas.

I was getting this from inside the US, however setting my VPN to LA worked to get around it. I assume this is because that's where the Meta engineers are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

EDIT: Once accessed there is this note:

> This research demo is not open to residents of, or those accessing the demo from, the States of Illinois or Texas.

and I'm in TX

Oh wow, thanks for finding this. I am also in TX. I was going crazy thinking it might be my iCloud Private Relay

I think Texas has some recent law that could be interpreted as being against twinning tech / deep fakes like the voice cloning. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ seems like a good time to "ask the lawyers" and "not make a not political statement"

Even a passing glance it would be immediately clear that it's not a real risk of any sort.

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