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

Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d... by bfivyvysj on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @01:44AM (#48032682)

It's because it's 4gb and Apple still sells devices with 256gb hard drives.

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Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d... by xp84 on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @10:52PM (#48044884)

Those disks have been too small to be a reasonable default, and getting even more unreasonable by the day, for a decade, so while I agree that's a great reason to be quite peeved about this move, I'd be mad at Apple even more.

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Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d... by bfivyvysj on Thursday May 07, 2026 @03:18AM (#48046419)

I know, I just get the feeling this thread is getting too far away from reality - lots of gas lighting about things that don't matter.

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