Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.
Jeez, calm your tits, I think I asked politely enough so I wouldn’t deserve this kind of response.
My question was what do you think this particular model does, not what is achievable with AI in general. And I’m asking because a model that weights 4GB is not some trivial thing that every Chrome user wants or needs loaded in memory.
That’s nothing to do with my point that the article’s claim about the environmental impact is bullshit. I don’t know or care what that model is, I’ve not looked, and it’s not relevant to my point. And yeah, you haters do deserve anger as a response because you are actively making the world worse via wilful ignorance, and we know what that does because of arseholes like trump and farrage.
I don’t hate AI. I work for an AI company. But I hate the uselessness of a lot of the AI derived products. So, for me, burning a single drop of oil to write an email in business speech, post a video of a kitten in a superman outfit, or make a Trump Jesus pic, is a waste.
And in many ways, AI is actively making the world worse too, from big tech stealing content from everyone to train their models, to deepfake content flooding social media, there’s no good coming out of that. So maybe you should chill a bit before going off rails like you did.
I’m trying to understand why there’s so much angry energy here. Some of my colleagues work in research and none of them come across as an AI evangelist, not even close. Even more, there are a lot of valid concerns coming from them, from copyright infringements to privacy to accuracy. In engineering, there’s that, plus security, and above all, cost. Training and running models is extremely expensive and it may not even yield the desired results.
Started with neural networks around 2000, more recently latent diffusion models. Knowledge of art goes back two decades before that. Now stop sealioning - I’m not gonna respond to anything else you say unless its to admit you’re wrong. If you intend to keep lying, shut up instead
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Jeez, calm your tits, I think I asked politely enough so I wouldn’t deserve this kind of response.
My question was what do you think this particular model does, not what is achievable with AI in general. And I’m asking because a model that weights 4GB is not some trivial thing that every Chrome user wants or needs loaded in memory.
That’s nothing to do with my point that the article’s claim about the environmental impact is bullshit. I don’t know or care what that model is, I’ve not looked, and it’s not relevant to my point. And yeah, you haters do deserve anger as a response because you are actively making the world worse via wilful ignorance, and we know what that does because of arseholes like trump and farrage.
I don’t hate AI. I work for an AI company. But I hate the uselessness of a lot of the AI derived products. So, for me, burning a single drop of oil to write an email in business speech, post a video of a kitten in a superman outfit, or make a Trump Jesus pic, is a waste.
And in many ways, AI is actively making the world worse too, from big tech stealing content from everyone to train their models, to deepfake content flooding social media, there’s no good coming out of that. So maybe you should chill a bit before going off rails like you did.
You work for an AI company and can see no good coming from AI? What?
Is AI your field of work or research? Genuinely curious.
Literally decades of experience in both AI and art
What fields, specifically?
I’m trying to understand why there’s so much angry energy here. Some of my colleagues work in research and none of them come across as an AI evangelist, not even close. Even more, there are a lot of valid concerns coming from them, from copyright infringements to privacy to accuracy. In engineering, there’s that, plus security, and above all, cost. Training and running models is extremely expensive and it may not even yield the desired results.
So what’s your angle here?
Started with neural networks around 2000, more recently latent diffusion models. Knowledge of art goes back two decades before that. Now stop sealioning - I’m not gonna respond to anything else you say unless its to admit you’re wrong. If you intend to keep lying, shut up instead
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