Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent.
2026-05-05 16:13 UTC
Replies (6)
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@frongt@lemmy.zip 2026-05-05 16:31
Install Chrome, get Chrome, including the AI parts. If you don’t like it, don’t use Chrome.
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@supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2026-05-05 16:50
A preinstalled AI on the most popular web browser that most people wont even know is there sounds like a nearly perfect recipe for a cybersecurity and/or misinformation nightmare.
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@RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-05 17:08
Another reason I’m glad I degoogled my phone.
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@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-05 17:16
You already shouldn’t be using Chrome, and if this is what moves the needle, great. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. No. Just flatly, no. Local models spin your GPU like a video game. Unless you think Overwatch is a climate disaster, please learn to separate datacenter condemnation from people running their own computers a little harder.
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@altphoto@lemmy.today 2026-05-05 19:45
Hadn’t used it or upgraded it in a year. I deleted chrome from my Linux box. It felt. Pretty good actually.
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@FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2026-05-06 02:31
Per-device cost of one Nano push Bandwidth: 4 GB Energy: 4 × 0.06 = 0.24 kWh per device per push CO2: 0.24 × 0.25 = 0.06 kg CO2e per device per push Yeah, Google pushing updates you don’t want is annoying. Trying to pretend like 4GB of data is some environmental catastrophe is just hyperbole. You use more than that streaming a movie, or watching Tiktok or autoplaying videos on Reddit or updating any video game or regular web browsing.