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Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d... by expedition32 on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @06:39AM (#48020598)
Mozilla is nice enough to let you opt out.

I'm in my 40s I have no desire for this new technology unless we get the kind of AI from Japanese anime.

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Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d... by ElFitz on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @07:22AM (#48020940)
Offering something like a local Gemma 4 (though apparently not what we get here) to web apps via a browser API could change UX quite drastically. Possibly for the better. We had a project where it could have been nice.
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Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d... by red-iron-pine on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @10:10AM (#48022773)
> "RMS style curl works for me unless I can have Hatsune Miku"
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