Cross-Posted, via Technology Community.
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.
a decade or more ago chrome was the nice new browser endorsed by techies replacing evil IE. kinda funny thinking back now
I think about the slogan “don’t be evil” about once a week. I wonder if the founders of google ever think about it still.
Their slogan nowadays is “Be Neutral Evil”
No, there is more money in chaos.
They think it like SpongeBob thinking “Don’t need it”
Google once their stock plummets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJUDogCaTXI
You die the hero or live long enough to become the villain…