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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent.
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Please tell me you aren't using a carbon footprint argument, you know. The ones Oil companies use to blame us, a population of people for climate change, instead of take action against them, and their corporate buddies. Who are a single large contributor, if not the entire problem in and of itself.
Even though we're probably very different in our beliefs I would agree that I don't want things using GPU without my consent. But I don't agree in justifying it or hatred of AI with carbon footprint rhetoric created by the companies who created this problem in the first place.