Y’all remember a couple weeks ago when I shared Privacy Guy’s article about #Anthropic being sketchy?
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Y’all remember a couple weeks ago when I shared Privacy Guy’s article about #Anthropic being sketchy?
#Google said, Hold my beer, and dropped a 4 gig #ai weights file on every #chrome user. You can’t delete it, it reinstalls unless you can wizard your way through some obscure settings. And, the browser doesn’t use it, it ships queries to google cloud. It exists only so they can say it’s “local”.
“An engineering team at a large AI vendor decided that the user's machine is a deployment surface to be optimised for the vendor's product roadmap, not a personal device whose owner is the legal authority on what runs there.
The Anthropic case put a pre-authorisation for browser automation on around three million Claude Desktop user devices [19]. The Google case puts 4 GB of AI weights on, by my mid-band estimate, around 500 million Chrome user devices, with proportionally larger ePrivacy, GDPR, and environmental exposure.”
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!
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 Privacy Guy! (www.thatprivacyguy.com)
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Y’all remember a couple weeks ago when I shared Privacy Guy’s article about #Anthropic being sketchy?
#Google said, Hold my beer, and dropped a 4 gig #ai weights file on every #chrome user. You can’t delete it, it reinstalls unless you can wizard your way through some obscure settings. And, the browser doesn’t use it, it ships queries to google cloud. It exists only so they can say it’s “local”.
“An engineering team at a large AI vendor decided that the user's machine is a deployment surface to be optimised for the vendor's product roadmap, not a personal device whose owner is the legal authority on what runs there.
The Anthropic case put a pre-authorisation for browser automation on around three million Claude Desktop user devices [19]. The Google case puts 4 GB of AI weights on, by my mid-band estimate, around 500 million Chrome user devices, with proportionally larger ePrivacy, GDPR, and environmental exposure.”
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!
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 Privacy Guy! (www.thatprivacyguy.com)
@MissConstrue Google and Boondoggle are spelled the same now
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Y’all remember a couple weeks ago when I shared Privacy Guy’s article about #Anthropic being sketchy?
#Google said, Hold my beer, and dropped a 4 gig #ai weights file on every #chrome user. You can’t delete it, it reinstalls unless you can wizard your way through some obscure settings. And, the browser doesn’t use it, it ships queries to google cloud. It exists only so they can say it’s “local”.
“An engineering team at a large AI vendor decided that the user's machine is a deployment surface to be optimised for the vendor's product roadmap, not a personal device whose owner is the legal authority on what runs there.
The Anthropic case put a pre-authorisation for browser automation on around three million Claude Desktop user devices [19]. The Google case puts 4 GB of AI weights on, by my mid-band estimate, around 500 million Chrome user devices, with proportionally larger ePrivacy, GDPR, and environmental exposure.”
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!
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 Privacy Guy! (www.thatprivacyguy.com)
@MissConstrue Chrome, itself, is sketchy.
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@MissConstrue Chrome, itself, is sketchy.
@gdinwiddie true story.
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