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!
www.thatprivacyguy.com
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.
    • ReCursing@feddit.ukBanned from communityEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I’m not gonna respond to anything else you say unless its to admit you’re wrong. If you intend to keep lying, shut up instead

      (yes I realise the irony here. But you still have nothing useful to add to the “discussion” so shut up)

      • mabeledo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        I was wrong to think you were trying to debate in good faith. Hell, you didn’t even back up your own claims.

        Have a good day.