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Google 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.com)

submitted 2 days ago by sanitation@lemmy.radio to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] jpablo68@infosec.pub 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is Bonzi-buddy-levels of spyware...

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[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is most consumer hardware even capable of running this model?

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The article says it has hardware requirements to even download it. But yeah, you can run lots of stuff on the CPU, just at a fraction of the speed.

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[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 5 points 2 days ago

That's your fault for using Chrome.

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