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lechekaflan@lemmy.world to Fuck AI@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days ago

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.

www.thatprivacyguy.com

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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.

www.thatprivacyguy.com

lechekaflan@lemmy.world to Fuck AI@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 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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    Joke’s on them, I only have 1gb/month of mobile data.

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