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Google Chrome is reportedly auto-installing a massive 4GB AI model without your consent (www.neowin.net)
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Chrome version 147 silently downloads Gemini Nano's weights.bin file to local storage, sparking major privacy, data, and legal concerns.

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 58 points 2 days ago (1 children)

People are shocked when the bad boyfriend (google) that people warned them about, do highly unethical things. That boyfriend only exists to use & abuse you, it has no other purpose anymore.

[–] username_1@programming.dev 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That "boyfriend" just makes money, he doesn't know or even care about your existence.

[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

This argument irks me as it merely exists to wash the crimes of companies as if they exist on a different plane of existence where morality doesn't exist and people pretend corporates are not just a bunch of humans in a trench coat trying to commit the crime without doing the time.

[–] username_1@programming.dev 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Companies are not people. Companies don't share the moral with you. Crimes and moral are orthogonal at best.

[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Companies are created by and comprised of people. It's very clear that the concept of a company is meant to extract wealth by immoral means while shielding the owners from accountability and consequences that being a normal citizen cannot afford.

[–] username_1@programming.dev 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Companies are created by and comprised of people.

And people are comprised of neutrons and electrons. And surprisingly behave in a very different way.

[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 0 points 20 hours ago

that's not a honest argument is it now?

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That boyfriend was once sweet, caring, quirky, and innovative once. He tried many things and was better than his older two brothers, the hip one who charged too much and the lame one that your parents were forced to deal with.

Somewhere along the way, he forgot his roots and became Jennifer Lopez.

[–] FippleStone@aussie.zone 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

His name is Jennifer Lopez, he likes burritos, and tacos