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!

A security researcher claims Google Chrome is silently installing a 4GB AI model on devices without permission. Deleting it won't help either.

A 4GB file called weights.bin may be sitting on your hard drive right now, put there by Chrome without your knowledge.

Security researcher Alexander Hanff says Chrome is quietly installing a 4GB AI model, raising concerns over consent, storage, and emissions.

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You can stop Chrome from taking up 4GB of storage for local AI, but that shouldn't be your problem.

Google Chrome writes a 4GB AI model to users’ devices without asking, and reinstalls it if you delete it.

① Someone felt contemplative... I was looking for a review of Argent Linux and I noticed this ad hoc philosophy at the end of a review of it in DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1165, March 23, 2026: Zooming out I want to put aside the specifics of my time with Argent to talk about something which...

At least there's a toggle to easily turn this off.

Chrome installs Gemini Nano without consent. The AI button you see sends everything to Google anyway. Here is what is on your disk and how to stop it.

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Just a guy in Ohio.

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Meta: New AI measures to identify teens. Meta will use AI to scan photos and videos and detect people’s height and bone structure in order to place teenagers in age-appropriate experiences.

After the 4GB AI install, I moved my browsing off Chrome to Firefox

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Google has been quietly downloading a large AI model, Gemini Nano, without asking or notifying users.

If your Mac's storage has been mysteriously shrinking recently and you use Google Chrome, you may have already identified the culprit. The browser has been downloading a 4GB AI model file onto computers without explicit user consent. Here's how to reclaim the space. The file in question is...

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If your Mac's storage has been mysteriously shrinking recently and you use Google Chrome, you may have already identified the culprit. The browser has been downloading a 4GB AI model file onto computers without explicit user consent. Here's how to reclaim the space.

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An unsettling report shed light on Google's unwanted installation of a 4GB AI model that now resides on computers—yes, yours, too.

Quase todo brasileiro já tropeçou em uma deepfake na internet, o que nos torna mais expostos a manipulações com fotos de pessoas criadas ou modificadas com inteligência artificial do que americanos e britânicos. E, mesmo alvejados por imagens sintética

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Meta: New AI measures to identify teens. Meta will use AI to scan photos and videos and detect people’s height and bone structure in order to place teenagers in age-appropriate experiences.