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#Google #Chrome has been silently pushing a 4GB #AI model to your device without asking

source: techspot.com/news/112309-googl…

Given Chrome's billions of users, the total number of affected devices – and the #bandwidth consumed – could be substantial. Hanff estimates that pushing 4GB to hundreds of millions or billions of devices would amount to several exabytes of data transferred, potentially generating between 6,000 and 60,000 metric tons of #CO2.

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Google Chrome has been silently pushing a 4GB AI model to your device without asking

Google Chrome users who have noticed unusual disk activity or unexplained drops in available storage should look for a folder called "OptGuideOnDeviceModel" inside their Chrome directory. It...

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May 7 at 5:46pmWeb
Show threadErik2d ago
@scriptkiddie Ein Alptraum. 300 mal 4Gb in den Userprofilen. Das sprengt unseren Fileserver. Immer dieser Kampf gegen Bigtech. So gar kein Bock mehr als Admin