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.
  • Septimaeus@infosec.pubEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Was Mork attempting a surprised German, an elderly Japanese man, or some strange third thing?

    vintage t-shirt graphic of robin William’s smirking framed by a ludicrous amount of blow-dried hair wearing a Lycra onesie and holding up a lewd alien gesture captioned “nanu nanu!” and bearing the trademark “mork and Mindy” television show logo in a garish vignette and matching font of cliched mid-70s tobacco stain-colored banded gradient

    • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      That’s one toked up comedian. Can’t blame him for killing himself. This place is a fucking shithole.