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Chrome includes AI, stop the fucking presses!

Who gives a shit? You use Chrome, Chrome uses AI, so it downloads the model like any other module. Don't like it? Don't use Chrome. There are dozens of other perfectly good browsers.

The article, as usual, makes no comparison to the environmental impact of companies like McDonalds (who use PER DAY what every AI data centre combined in the world uses PER YEAR, not companies like Shell or BP who are orders of magnitude worse than that. This is the usual anti-ai fear-mongering bollocks.

Should Google have installed it unasked? No, that's bullshit, possibly illegal bullshit but honestly considering how disingenuous the environmental impact is I can't trust the legal stuff that I don't know about either. But it is not an environmental catastrophe as whoever wrote this article would like you to believe for some reason.

Honest question: why are the haters pushing their nonsense? What do they have to gain?

edit: As usually the haters and useful idiots provide nonsense counterpoints and downvote because they don't have laugh reacts to demonstrate their groupthink and wilful ignorance. I really wish they'd all shut the hell up, they're annoying!

A dvd is roughly 768mb.

That means 6-8 Netflix movies are probably 4gb.

This is really not a lot, even with a billion chrome installs.