[hatsix]

Google wants usage that earns them street cred, not usage from bots who will never evaluate the output. They're all fighting tooth and nail to acquire customers, both free and paid... they didn't want their giveaways to be burned.

[jacquesm]

They're about to find out that if you aim to wholesale replace your workers with AI you can't really complain if your users replace themselves with AI...

[ipaddr]

So they ban a group of early adopters who picked their product and who shape opinions.

[causal]

But banning accounts wholesale is not going to earn them more customers. They could have just disabled Gemini access, or even given a warning first.

I don't use OpenClaw, I do pay hundreds per month for AI subscriptions, and I will not be giving that money to Google while they treat their customers like this.

[concinds]

> They could have just disabled Gemini access

They just disabled Antigravity access.

[chii]

> But banning accounts wholesale is not going to earn them more customers.

it has the chilling effect - people getting banned by google might imagine their entire google account getting banned (whether that's true or not is irrelevant).

[jacquesm]

> They could have just disabled Gemini access

Yes, please!