alt Hacker NewsI'd add that we've seen how the leadership/reputation of different AI leaders, and with 2 decades of history with Larry and Sergey, they seem to come up on top as the most respectable.
Did they ever really abuse the power Google could have wielded? I could be missing something, but for the most part they seem to just get down to building and pushing technology/science forward and avoid drama rather than welcome it.
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Eh, people are pretty upset about the ad-driven nature of the internet which was largely spearheaded by Google.
However, I don't think the alternative would have made people any happier (and frankly they probably would be justifiably even more angry)
Both founders are in the Epstein files, with Sergey Brin visiting Epstein's private island.
They're literally not upstreaming Android security fixes:
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576
> Google should not be gatekeeping security patches to the standard Android platform code from Android OEMs but that's what they've started doing.
The whole Android developer verification program controversy.
These 2 are the recent things that come to mind that are most adjacent to "power-abuse".