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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

www.thatprivacyguy.com

RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 2 days ago
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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
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Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.

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  • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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    oh you silly plebs, you still think you “own” that device?

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      In Linux btw its still your own device

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