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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)
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Cross-Posted, via Technology Community.

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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[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

a decade or more ago chrome was the nice new browser endorsed by techies replacing evil IE. kinda funny thinking back now

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think about the slogan “don’t be evil” about once a week. I wonder if the founders of google ever think about it still.

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Their slogan nowadays is "Be Neutral Evil"

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

No, there is more money in chaos.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They think it like SpongeBob thinking "Don't need it"

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Google once their stock plummets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJUDogCaTXI

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

You die the hero or live long enough to become the villain....