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ooli3@sopuli.xyzM to Fight For Privacy@sopuli.xyz · 3 months 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. — That Privacy Guy!

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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!

www.thatprivacyguy.com

ooli3@sopuli.xyzM to Fight For Privacy@sopuli.xyz · 3 months ago
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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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    You see how Google is going insane and stupid? Idk wtf is driving big companies that way, are they brain-washed or sth? wtf is going on in this world?

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      🤑 I wonder what could possibly be driving their decisions?

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      quarterly earnings reports.

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      End stage capitalism.

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