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Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d... by tjansen on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @04:12AM (#48033618)
They probably didn't even think about that. Admittedly, 4GB is quite big, but if I were in their shoes, I would have expected that people are thrilled about using a local LLM instead of sending data to a cloud-based LLM.

I am still stunned that there are people who hate AI so much that they have a problem with the weights of an LLM being on their computer. To me, that sounds rather esoteric.

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Re:Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your d... by cataflutter on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @05:52AM (#48034335)
Disk space is one thing, but the actual download size is higher than some people's data allowances altogether! It baffles me that a lot of people don't seem to be aware of this
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