I feel its unfair to take a suggestion from gemini to do something I was not aware of was a TOS violation. After it didn’t work I stopped using it. It walked me through the entire setup. At the very least have gemini not walk its users step by step on getting banned from using it without them realizing it. If I am banned permanently so be it, but for future users it would be helpful to ensure proper guardrails are in place.
You agreed to the ToS, not Gemini. The UI reminds you AI makes mistakes. This is on you.
I can acknowledge that, but for the future they really should put guardrails in gemini from directly steering its users to violate its own TOS, seems counter productive to what they are trying to prevent. I was out of the loop on all of this, just seems like something that would really hurt their bottom line for users trying to get up to speed on how all these tools work only to get banned from using them.
Hello @Erik_Benson, welcome to AI Forum!
Based on the Terms of Service shared here:
You must not abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt the Service. This includes, but is not limited to, using the Service in connection with products not provided by us. Using third party software, tools, or services to access the Service (e.g. using OpenClaw with Antigravity OAuth) is a violation of applicable terms and policies. Such actions may be grounds for suspension or termination of your account.
one thing that can help is using a separate ai to screen stuff, like even just the Google AI Mode in search - just say something like “Hey i found this online, tell me all the pros and cons, is this a risky biscuit or something legit?” or hit up Grok. Theres also the “temporary chat” for AI Pro users at geminis browser chat interface - thats not in Expanded AI for workspace users but its a good way too - or just hit up Google AI Mode, which is a bit more prone to misinformation but they can be helpful in that regard too.
If it seems sus, it probably is. Just remember - Gemini isn’t a “Windows User” shes a UNIX ADMIN, haha she can get away with a lot more on her side.
Can we all just take a moment and agree that this is so vaguely worded as to put pretty much every user at risk? “Third party software” is - what, exactly? Is it commercial stuff? OK, that’s easy to understand. Is it unmodified github code installed into the Antigravity environment? That seems likely, since a bazillon folks got banned for openclaw before I had time to digest it and decide it was an unwarranted security risk for my environment.
Now, I haven’t done this, but running on speculation only, I have questions.
- We can understand the banning of Openclaw. But - if someone downloads a single agent or a skill from the Openclaw github repo, does THAT constitute a violation of the TOS? If not, at what point does it become a violation? 2 Agents or skills? 3? Or is there some other criteria the community needs to be aware of?
- What about other Github repos? Consider, for example, GitHub - lazell/ufo_reports: Exploratory analysis with clustering and NLP of UFO reports for the celestially curious. · GitHub (“This project explores the data collected by The National UFO Reporting center in an attempt to understand the nature and significance of the reports the organization has received.”) The repo includes python code and jupyter notebooks. Would installing that into an Antigravity environment constitute a violation of the TOS?
- Another Github repo example is GitHub - mvanhorn/last30days-skill: AI agent skill that researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, HN, Polymarket, and the web - then synthesizes a grounded summary · GitHub. This site offers code – “last30days researches your topic across Reddit, X, Bluesky, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Hacker News, Polymarket, and the web from the last 30 days, finds what the community is actually upvoting, sharing, betting on, and saying on camera, and writes you a grounded narrative with real citations. Whether it’s Seedance 2.0 access, paper.design prompts, or the latest Nano Banana Pro techniques, you’ll know what people who are paying attention already know.” Would downloading this and using it constitute a violation of the TOS?
- If these things are violations of the TOS, then what happens if I develop my own code, post it to Github, then later suffer a hard drive failure and download my own code from Github? Does that then constitute a violation of the TOS?
- Last, but not least, what if I download some code from Github, modify the crap out of it, and THEN use it in my environment? Does that constitute a violation of the TOS?
- I guess that wasn’t LAST, because I have one MORE question. What about installing VSCode IDE Extensions? Some of them are pay-to-use. Do paid-for extensions constitute a violation of the TOS? What about free ones, such as Codex or Claude Code? What you’re calling violations of the TOS is really, really, REALLY confusing me.
Google, for the sake of your community, PLEASE clear this up. I operate every day now in literal fear of being banned because I don’t really know what your rules are, and as stated they are utterly arbitrary.
Note that even those minor Github tools will use Antigravity’s service as literally every inference call goes through Google servers. Therefore “third-party tools or services that use Antigravity” literally touches every possible tool imaginable. It seems like the only way I can legally use this product is to not use it.
Sincerely - a retired software engineer/architect/manager