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.
    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Grocery stores are unnecessary too, you can just go kill/harvest/forage your own food. Shut up.

        • ReCursing@feddit.ukEnglish
          16·
          3 days ago

          What for? Coming out with a fucking stupid counterpoint? Weird thing to thank someone for

        • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          No, that’s a really fucking dumb argument. Stop being an idiot

          Take your own advice. I can grow and raise my own food, so the grocery store is just a convenience. You’re just angrily trying to draw a meaningless line in the sand to prop up your ego argument, and it shows.

          • ReCursing@feddit.ukEnglish
            15·
            3 days ago

            No, I’m angrily calling out bullshit that is bullshit, but you thought Terminator was a documentary and so will immediately believe anything that says AI is bad no matter now outlandish rather than actually learn anything

            • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              3 days ago

              None of that refutes my point, or supports your non sequiturs, and is just making up bullshit about what you think I believe.

              • ReCursing@feddit.ukEnglish
                12·
                15 hours ago

                Based on your comments and previo8us experience I don;t see a single thing I’ve said that is wrong. I also have never seen a single thing you haters have said that is right. Stop believing fearmongering youtubers

                • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  11·
                  15 hours ago

                  Your entire last comment was 100% wrong, so your understanding of you being wrong is meaningless.

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      I see what you’re saying and, parts of it, I’m on your side!

      Those final two words there, I must say, do a disservice to the comment. One thought experiment: what makes Lemmy a pleasant place to debate?