"Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

[epicdemiologist@wandering.shop]

@benjaoming Thank you. Uninstalled Chrome, which I rarely use anyway.

[kens@mastodon.uno]

@benjaoming
Shortly...
Google?
Chrome???
Never!

[ferricoxide@blahaj.zone]

@benjaoming@social.data.coop

So, while I have Chrome installed, I'm going to guess I haven't launched Chrome since they started this fuckery?

[benjaoming@social.data.coop]

@ferricoxide it would be interesting with a before/after test for sure! thanks for sharing!

[ferricoxide@blahaj.zone]

@benjaoming@social.data.coop

Also, I tend to make use of multiple (per) browser profiles to keep "personal" and "work" (etc.) wholly separate from each other. If I had two profiles under my user account, would I end up with 8GiB in models getting shoved onto my system?

[ferricoxide@blahaj.zone]

@benjaoming@social.data.coop

Also, I tend to make use of multiple (per) browser profiles to keep "personal" and "work" (etc.) wholly separate from each other. If I had two profiles under my user account, would I end up with 8GiB in models getting shoved onto my system?

[benjaoming@social.data.coop]

@ferricoxide those are all good questions - I'm cheering for you to go and make the experiment with your local installation and share your findings (before uninstalling Chrome)

[kichae@wanderingadventure.party]

axel. No one wants to use 4GB LLMs, though. Even the 20GB version of Gemma is frustratingly "stupid" and "insubordinate". A 4GB model is going be impossibly unreliable. There's no value in using these as a distributed data centre.

[dckim@mastodon.social]

@liquor_american @benjaoming i think i'll search for it now. And maybe I should read the blog post... hmmm...

[dckim@mastodon.social]

@liquor_american @benjaoming

I don't think I have it, so I feel sort of ripped off right now.

I tried asking the AI from google to tell me where it is.