Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.

sanitation@lemmy.radio · 4 天前

Comet79@lemmy.world · 2 天前

They did. If you remove it, Chrome detects that the folder is missing and it downloads it again. Just don’t use Chrome.

Mwa@thelemmy.club · 1 天前

ig imma stick to my Steam built in browser.

aphonefriend@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 天前

There is a windows registry tweak to disable it permanently. Just search up the proper key.

Derpgon@programming.dev · 2 天前

What of you just keep an empty file in it’s place? Hopefully it doesn’t do a checksum.

possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 天前

Easy solution- use Firefox or Librewolf instead.

Bad_Ideas_In_Bulk@lemmy.world · 2 天前

Firefox has a new CEO who is pivoting the project into being an “AI Browser”.

innermachine@lemmy.world · 2 天前

Interesting. This update is not on my phone or my PC, which are both up to date. Wonder who it’s installing on.