Most of the surveillance stories we’ve looked at here lately have involved things you can at least see when you walk past them: cameras at the gate, sensors on the shelf, a label adjusting a price as you move through space.
From what I remember, the measurements taken by the researchers were under rather controlled conditions with little other storage access to muddy the waters.
As for the 4 GB LLM Chrome now ships with: If those 4 GB create significant storage issues on your system you probably have other issues to worry about already. I’m not a huge fan of LLMs being crammed into everything but it shouldn’t make much of a difference in this case.
What happens if there’s an extra 4GB of stuff laying around?
https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/05/no-google-hasnt-changed-chromes-local-ai-features-its-just-as-confusing-as-ever/
From what I remember, the measurements taken by the researchers were under rather controlled conditions with little other storage access to muddy the waters.
As for the 4 GB LLM Chrome now ships with: If those 4 GB create significant storage issues on your system you probably have other issues to worry about already. I’m not a huge fan of LLMs being crammed into everything but it shouldn’t make much of a difference in this case.
Hm. Had been thinking of it in terms of controlling the local file system.
Thanks.