Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d...
by jchw on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @04:55PM
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How does that change anything? It doesn't matter if you categorize it as software or not, unwanted is unwanted. And frankly I just flatly disagree, you could certainly make the case that model weights are a form of software.
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Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d...
by dylan604 on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @05:12PM
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If they downloaded a 4GiB media file of some Irish band that nobody asked for, people would be upset as well. It doesn't matter what the 4GiB contains. If it is not going to be used by the user and the user didn't ask for it, that's just idiotic to think people would not be upset about it.