sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoGoogle 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.comexternal-linkmessage-square334linkfedilinkarrow-up11.03Karrow-down123cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zipprivacy@programming.devtechnology@beehaw.orghackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
arrow-up11.01Karrow-down1external-linkGoogle 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.comsanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square334linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zipprivacy@programming.devtechnology@beehaw.orghackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
minus-squareThomasWilliams@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·9 days agoI can’t see any issues here. You agree to download and install Chrome and all its elements. The size of the file is therefore irrelevant. Obviously it uses the cloud, you can’t run an AI model locally and it would be impossible to secure anyway.
I can’t see any issues here.
You agree to download and install Chrome and all its elements.
The size of the file is therefore irrelevant.
Obviously it uses the cloud, you can’t run an AI model locally and it would be impossible to secure anyway.