Don't need a bot, it's called marketing! (They chose the name.)

Yup, the argument that they must be evil because they're named after a crystal ball from Lord of the Rings is one of the least convincing things I've ever heard. I have no idea why this is so consistently parroted on this forum.

I dunno, if elon musk's next spacex project was called "death star", I might be a little concerned.

on a more serious note, people do choose the names for their companies/products. they could be totally meaningless, merely sound good, or convey something about the brand. it's not a rigorous argument, but nor is it ridiculous to wonder what they were going for here.

That's not the argument. The argument is they're evil because they're doing pretty questionable things that have massive possibility of abuse. And that they intentionally used a name that seems to describe the exact kind of moral problem with their technology is just, like, lazy writing.