"Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking....

[christosargyrop@mastodon.social]

"Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking....
The only ways to make the deletion stick are to disable Chrome's AI features through chrome://flags or enterprise policy"

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
#AI #infosec

[knowprose@mastodon.social]

@ChristosArgyrop ...At Chrome's scale, the climate bill for one model push, paid in atmospheric CO2 by the entire planet, is between six thousand and sixty thousand tonnes of CO2-equivalent emissions, depending on how many devices receive the push...

#ai #climatechange

[terryday@mastodon.social]

@ChristosArgyrop I deleted chrome off my computer. I very rarely use it anyway, and it had the audacity to open a window when it was all done and asked me. Why can you tell us why this is why Google.

[slugmilk@metroholografix.ca]

@ChristosArgyrop
Actually the easiest way to prevent any future breaches of trust is to permenantly uninstall it from all your devices and never look back.