"search is deeply connected to AI"

in case the reply is not clear, I mean to emphasize and amplify the alarming Google behavior described above

Everything’s a pre-structured duopoly for national security and profit moating.

There’s nowhere to go.

There are 5 major frontier labs competing in the US alone with serious capital. Perhaps only 2 of them are are truly in contention for the top spot, but it's highly competitive. Then throw in the handful of very serious sub-frontier open weights labs, who are creating huge price competition for the frontier labs, and I have no idea how you can come to this conclusion.

Cloud is no different: 3 major cloud vendors, with 1 clear leader...and now a long tail of tier 2s and neoclouds that are also investing incredible sums to compete.

Where is the pre-structured duopoly? Where is the profit moating?

There are 2 US frontier AI labs. The others aren’t competing at the frontier hence no concern for national security or moating.

You can’t build a fighter jet in your garage.

Ignorance is bliss

Build a Beautiful Bubble and self host as much as you can

I mean, trusting Google from the beginning was always a losing game.

You can simply ask Gemini directly what it knows about you.

That's brave. I can't help but wonder what dystopian things happen to our data behind the scenes, and what processing/blocks exist to display a different reality of the situation to us.

One scenario could be if they nudge it into answering the above question incorrectly, to encourage the user to correct it, especially where it triggers an emotional response. For example, getting their basic details wrong along with sexuality.

I meant to ask Gemini what it knows about you as a test to see if it has personalization on and if it is looking at your drive or email.

Gemini- if it knows anything about you- would be employing some sort of RAG- I didn't mean this as a test of what Google knows about you overall.