[bagacrap]

Plus it's the mega monopoly that is already being scrutinized by the government. Every tech company seems to start out with too much credibility that it has to whittle down little by little before we really hold them accountable.

[blitzar]

Google is multiple orders of magnitute closer to being 'owned by the people' than a privately held for profit charity.

[illiac786]

Yes, I would only prefer Gemini because google is under scrutiny, not because I think I know alphabet better than openAI. I think it’s a changing beast and no one can “know” it, it’s an illusion created by the brand, underneath it, it’s different every day.

[echelon]

Are we forgetting that they're getting more evil, not less?

They just removed ManifestV2.

[surajrmal]

If you think manifest v2 is related to being more evil you have to rethink your sense of ethics. Companies of that size regularly engage in business that results in the deaths of many innocent people. Overall Google does quite well by many metrics compared to its peers.

[roxolotl]

Yea we’re in Silicon Valley’s Lex Luthor era. World Coin is just really next level though compared to most Google things. Sama has kinda always been going for the Lex Luthor vibe.

[echelon]

Growing up in a Southern Baptist household where televangelists preached the end of the world every day at 4 PM, World Coin has some serious Antichrist and Revelation vibes. I'll give you that point.