News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. Parent comment

Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d... by croes on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @04:00PM (#48027683)
Maybe it’s pro-browser activism.

A browser should render web pages not bring its own AI

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d... by brendoelfrendo on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @04:06PM (#48027773)
Yeah, it's already egregious how resource intensive browsing the web can be, between the browser and the content its loading. Why should we just accept that Google will force another performance hit by loading up an AI model as well?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d... by account42 on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @04:56AM (#48033919)
I guess they took all the Chrome RAM usage memes as feature requests.
[ Parent | on HN ]