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Google is winning on every AI front

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993 points vinhnx | 3 comments | 12 Apr 25 03:58 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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throwaway519 ◴[12 Apr 25 04:07 UTC] No.43661279[source]▶
It isn't when considering Google's brand has (long) lost trust in how it hanles data. This is especially true with larger companies, F500 type brands, who tend to avoid Google for infra as do governments.
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suddenexample ◴[12 Apr 25 06:10 UTC] No.43661789[source]▶
Weird - it's hard to beat widespread online narratives, but as someone who worked at Google there's no company I'd trust more with the "handling" part of my data. There's no doubt that on device is always a more private option, but if you've decided to keep data in the cloud, then Google is probably one of the most secure options you could choose.
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GeneralMayhem ◴[12 Apr 25 06:18 UTC] No.43661832[source]▶
Same, as another former Googler. I worked on a team that had a relatively large amount of data access, and the amount of protection in place - technical and procedural, preventative and remedial - made me extremely comfortable giving Google basically all of my personal data, knowing that only the bare minimum would ever be looked at, and even then securely and in an anonymized or (usually) aggregated format.
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1. adgjlsfhk1 ◴[12 Apr 25 06:25 UTC] No.43661854[source]▶
as an outsider, Google is one of the companies I trust the most to prevent unintended leaks of my data, but also one of the ones I trust with my data least.
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2. mdhb ◴[12 Apr 25 07:21 UTC] No.43662135[source]▶
I think there’s a bit of a mismatch here between data Google collects on me as a regular user which they can and due process in a million different ways in order to sell shit to you. This extends to AI unless you’re paying for it in which case it’s a very different ballgame.

Then there is data that I put into a Google service like drive or cloud which genuinely is probably the single safest consumer option I know of in 2025.

3. Jensson ◴[12 Apr 25 09:32 UTC] No.43662840[source]▶
> but also one of the ones I trust with my data least.

What thing have they done with user data that you feel will negatively affect you? As far as I know people just don't like that they have a lot of data, nobody every said they did bad stuff with that data.