Chrome Local AI Model Raises Consent and Privacy Concerns

[DonTom]

But someone on that thread was right when they brought up laundromats.

That was me too. I brought up the Mountain Valley RV Park in Tehachapi, CA. It was the first I have seen that required a stupid Smartphone to wash and dry clothes.

-Don- Reno, NV

 

[Kittykamper]

You might find this interesting. I find it disgusting. It's been a while since I used chrome, and now I'll uninstall it on my computers/phones:

Chrome Silently Installs a 4GB AI Model On Your Device Without Consent - Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader couchslug shares a report from That Privacy Guy's Alexander Hanff: Two weeks ago I wrote about Anthropic silently registering a Native Messaging bridge in seven Chromium-based browsers on every machine where Claude Desktop was installed. The pattern was: install on user...

tech.slashdot.org

And I just came across this article:

Chrome's 4GB AI model isn't new, but you're not wrong for being confused

You can stop Chrome from taking up 4GB of storage for local AI, but that shouldn't be your problem.

arstechnica.com

After a more thorough reading, the second link above eases (sort of) the pain of the first link, though far from completely.

I like DuckDuckGo. It blocks all kinds of stuff and trackers. Some websites will give you a hard time, but I’ve had pretty good luck with it.

 

[gwinger]

Our GOV, is spending alot of money to fix the short comings AI why dont they try to fix the Natural Stupidity in DC

The government is full of "Artificial Intelligence". Just listen them talk.