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1755 points•1141 comments•1w ago•by john-doe•thatprivacyguy.com ↗

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

A report alleges that Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB on-device AI model onto users’ devices, writing a weights.bin file into a directory named OptGuideOnDeviceModel without user consent. The model is described as Gemini Nano and the piece says Chrome re-downloads the file if it is deleted, and that the behavior has potential privacy, legal, and environmental implications at scale. The article notes that disabling AI features or using enterprise policy can prevent the installation, but describes the default behavior as persistent.

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