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.
That’s nothing to do with my point that the article’s claim about the environmental impact is bullshit. I don’t know or care what that model is, I’ve not looked, and it’s not relevant to my point. And yeah, you haters do deserve anger as a response because you are actively making the world worse via wilful ignorance, and we know what that does because of arseholes like trump and farrage.
I don’t hate AI. I work for an AI company. But I hate the uselessness of a lot of the AI derived products. So, for me, burning a single drop of oil to write an email in business speech, post a video of a kitten in a superman outfit, or make a Trump Jesus pic, is a waste.
And in many ways, AI is actively making the world worse too, from big tech stealing content from everyone to train their models, to deepfake content flooding social media, there’s no good coming out of that. So maybe you should chill a bit before going off rails like you did.
That’s nothing to do with my point that the article’s claim about the environmental impact is bullshit. I don’t know or care what that model is, I’ve not looked, and it’s not relevant to my point. And yeah, you haters do deserve anger as a response because you are actively making the world worse via wilful ignorance, and we know what that does because of arseholes like trump and farrage.
I don’t hate AI. I work for an AI company. But I hate the uselessness of a lot of the AI derived products. So, for me, burning a single drop of oil to write an email in business speech, post a video of a kitten in a superman outfit, or make a Trump Jesus pic, is a waste.
And in many ways, AI is actively making the world worse too, from big tech stealing content from everyone to train their models, to deepfake content flooding social media, there’s no good coming out of that. So maybe you should chill a bit before going off rails like you did.
You work for an AI company and can see no good coming from AI? What?
Is AI your field of work or research? Genuinely curious.
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