--- title: Google's AI terms can nuke your entire Google account,... description: A widely circulated critique of Google's Antigravity AI product highlights a controversial term of service clause: Google can suspend an entire Google account,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/google-s-ai-terms-can-nuke-your-entire-google-account-and-devs-are-done-pretending-that-s-fine-dt8vfgoul twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Google's AI terms can nuke your entire Google account, and devs are done pretending that's fine | daily.dev og:description: A widely circulated critique of Google's Antigravity AI product highlights a controversial term of service clause: Google can suspend an entire Google account,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/google-s-ai-terms-can-nuke-your-entire-google-account-and-devs-are-done-pretending-that-s-fine-dt8vfgoul og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Dt8vFgoUl.png og:image:alt: Google's AI terms can nuke your entire Google account, and devs are done pretending that's fine og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Google's AI terms can nuke your entire Google account, and devs are done pretending that's fine **[Trends](https://daily.dev/sources/trends)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A widely circulated critique of Google's Antigravity AI product highlights a controversial term of service clause: Google can suspend an entire Google account, including Gmail, Workspace, and Cloud access, if it decides Antigravity was used in an unauthorized way (such as routing through a third-party client). Developers including Gergely Orosz and Corey Quinn pushed back publicly, with Quinn noting the real risk is losing Google Cloud accounts, not just Gmail. The critic (Theo) also ranked Antigravity last among AI coding tools for its harness quality, lack of third-party integrations, and aggressive enforcement. Some DeepMind employees reportedly claim the policy is outdated and unenforced, but since Google hasn't officially changed the terms, the risk remains real. ## Content Here's the situation: Antigravity, a Google/DeepMind AI product, has terms of service that let Google suspend your Google account if they suspect you're using it in unauthorized ways, like routing through third-party clients such as OpenClaw. Not a slap on the wrist. Your whole Google account. GergelyOrosz flagged it first: "Antigravity's terms of services make it crystal clear that if they determine you use Antigravity in a way they suspect is eg third-party usage, they can suspend your Google account." His take: not worth the risk, full stop. Then Theo piled on with a sharper critique. Google, he argues, has the worst ban policies of any AI lab, made worse by the fact that a ban doesn't just kill your API access, it can take down your Gmail, Google Workspace, and any Google Cloud accounts tied to your user. He ranked Google dead last among AI labs on basically every dimension that matters to developers: tooling, third-party integrations, and account safety. QuinnyPig added the part people are probably underestimating: "They can also whack your Google Cloud account, and/or any Google Cloud accounts to which your Google user is associated. They have done this before." DeepMind employees apparently tried to reassure the community that the ToS is outdated and not actively enforced. That didn't hold. Theo followed up saying bans are still going out, with a "big wave" hitting Antigravity users even after those reassurances. He's pointing people toward a DeepMind contact to get unbanned quickly, which is... not exactly confidence-inspiring. Antigravity did update their terms after the backlash. Whether that update actually changes the risk calculus is unclear. Primeagen's contribution: "Wait... People use AntiGravity?" Which, honestly, might be the most useful data point here about where this product sits in the developer mindset right now. ## Questions this post answers ### Can Google suspend my whole Google account for how I use Antigravity? Yes, Antigravity's terms of service let Google suspend a user's entire Google account, not just API access, if they suspect unauthorized usage such as routing through third-party clients like OpenClaw. This can also take down associated Gmail, Google Workspace, and Google Cloud accounts, and developers have confirmed such bans have actually happened, even after DeepMind staff claimed the policy was outdated. _Anyone weighing AI coding tools against account risk can follow how the Antigravity ban story develops on daily.dev._ ### Did Antigravity change its terms of service after the ban backlash? Yes, Antigravity updated its terms of service following public criticism from developers over account suspension risks, though whether the update meaningfully reduces the risk of losing a Google account remains unclear. Bans reportedly continued going out in a wave even after DeepMind employees suggested the enforcement was not active. _Track how AI vendor terms of service keep shifting before committing a workflow to daily.dev readers watching Antigravity._ ## Community take How the wider developer community reacted, aggregated from 2 discussions and 209 comments across x (as of 2026-09-13). **TL;DR:** Developers are alarmed and angry that using Antigravity/Gemini can trigger a full Google account ban despite repeated assurances this wouldn't happen, with many vowing to stop using Google's AI products entirely. **Sentiment:** 2% positive · 8% mixed · 90% skeptical **The pushback** - A single flagged AI action can nuke an entire Google account, wiping out Gmail, Workspace, and GCP access tied to it. - DeepMind staff reportedly promised only Gemini-specific bans would occur, yet full account disables are happening anyway. - There's no clear human escalation or appeals path, leaving people stuck with bot-driven appeal rejections. - The risk extends to unrelated accounts and even non-AI users, suggesting false positives and poor detection logic. - Losing a Google account can devastate both personal life and business infrastructure since so much (GCP, email, backups) is tied to one login. **By community** - x (skeptical): Overwhelmingly critical and fearful, with many replies describing bans as a betrayal of prior reassurances and vowing to avoid Google's AI tools going forward. **Hottest debate:** Whether these bans are a deliberate, systemic risk of tying AI usage to a full Google identity versus isolated glitches/false positives unrelated to AI use at all. **Open questions** - What specific behavior actually triggers the account-wide bans? - Why does DeepMind's stated policy not match what's happening in practice? - Will Google separate AI product bans from full account bans, and when? - What happens to GCP and Workspace access when a personal account tied to it gets banned? **Highlights** > @theo @_mohansolo This would genuinely keep me away from using almost any google ai product. There is too much tied to my google account. I wonder what happens to GCP access from a banned google account too, bad for business. > — [VencentSoliman on x · 54 points, 4 comments](https://x.com/VencentSoliman/status/2097806683418374197) > @theo @_mohansolo Just stop using products from @GeminiApp they are not serious people. Poor communication No clear standards Locks you out of your google account ( this is genius at so many levels ) > — [UnsoldBanana on x · 61 points, 1 comments](https://x.com/UnsoldBanana/status/2097801200532160787) > @theo @_mohansolo isn't the common criticism of Google right now that the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing? surely the ban team is not in the deepmind office > — [JustBill1182 on x · 16 points](https://x.com/JustBill1182/status/2097799980216139906) > @theo @_mohansolo @JackWoth98 is this still a rumour then? > — [Jasonpraful on x · 4 points](https://x.com/Jasonpraful/status/2097808790443745706) > @theo @_mohansolo Google doing themselves a favor. Let them shoot themselves in the foot. People should just stop using antigravity vote with your sub money > — [realtatendazhou on x · 5 points](https://x.com/realtatendazhou/status/2097812635047588065) **Source threads** - [x](https://x.com/theo/status/2097799436164616636) · 0 points · 209 comments - [x](https://x.com/steipete/status/2097826332638060600) · 0 points · 0 comments ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Google Antigravity falls to Earth under compute burden](https://daily.dev/posts/google-antigravity-falls-to-earth-under-compute-burden-rfwe0l8da) · The Register · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Big Security Problem Of Google Antigravity](https://daily.dev/posts/the-big-security-problem-of-google-antigravity-iiicntpms) · The Miners · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Addressing Antigravity Bans & Reinstating Access · google-gemini/gemini-cli · Discussion \#20632](https://daily.dev/posts/addressing-antigravity-bans-reinstating-access-google-gemini-gemini-cli-discussion-20632-et2bks7lc) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#google](https://daily.dev/tags/google), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/google-s-ai-terms-can-nuke-your-entire-google-account-and-devs-are-done-pretending-that-s-fine-dt8vfgoul) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Google's AI terms can nuke your entire Google account, and devs are done pretending that's fine","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/google-s-ai-terms-can-nuke-your-entire-google-account-and-devs-are-done-pretending-that-s-fine-dt8vfgoul","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/google-s-ai-terms-can-nuke-your-entire-google-account-and-devs-are-done-pretending-that-s-fine-dt8vfgoul"},"datePublished":"2026-09-03T10:07:40.282Z","dateModified":"2026-09-13T20:05:08.525Z","description":"A widely circulated critique of Google's Antigravity AI product highlights a controversial term of service clause: Google can suspend an entire Google account,...","image":"https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HRSLs9oXUAE-rRn.jpg","thumbnailUrl":"https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HRSLs9oXUAE-rRn.jpg","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Trends","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Trends","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--ZfSp3asX--/f_auto,q_auto/v1780996004/logos/trends?_a=BAMAMiWQ0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/trends"},"commentCount":1,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/google-s-ai-terms-can-nuke-your-entire-google-account-and-devs-are-done-pretending-that-s-fine-dt8vfgoul","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"keywords":"security,google,ai-coding","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Trends","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/trends"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Google's AI terms can nuke your entire Google account, and devs are done pretending that's fine"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/google-s-ai-terms-can-nuke-your-entire-google-account-and-devs-are-done-pretending-that-s-fine-dt8vfgoul#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"Can Google suspend my whole Google account for how I use Antigravity?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Yes, Antigravity's terms of service let Google suspend a user's entire Google account, not just API access, if they suspect unauthorized usage such as routing through third-party clients like OpenClaw. 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