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Foxes Every Hour
Testing some of my favorite local dried beans to see if they sprout. If they do, I already know how to prepare and eat them.
For annoying medical reasons I have been an unwilling vegetarian for two weeks now. I'm getting a lot of use out of potatoes, salad wraps, egg sandwiches, and many variations on noodles and cheese, but feeling hungry all the time is really getting old.
Tonight I'm having bean stew and sourdough, though, so that should hopefully take a bite out of it. (ha.)
Aaron Toponce ⚛️
Google Chrome is silently installing a local LLM on your computer that is 4 gigabytes in size. It's done without consent, it's not visible in the settings, and removing it will reinstall it later.
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
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.
jenbanim
Michael StancliftMay the force be with you.
git push --force
arclightRE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116479704797697865
Nothing "went rogue". AI didn't delete the firm's database and backups. A human operator built admin automation and ran it in production without adequate testing or backups.
I'm sorry, but no: a human gave admin privileges to unverified tools and ran them in a production environment.
Own your work. You as sysadmin, developer, etc. are paid to perform a job with skill and diligence. Ultimately you are responsible for your professional work. If there was someone upstream responsible for V&V of the tool, ensuring users are trained, cautions and limitations of the tool are communicated, and confirming the tool is fit for its intended use, they bear a share of that responsibility.
If you're the manager that forced worker to use an unreliable tool on production systems without putting it through proper V&V, without effective user training, use case development, or risk assessment, you bear a share of the responsibility.
Repeating this for those in the back: AI does not launder away your job responsibilities.