#largefiles — Public Fediverse posts

TechSpot: 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 holds roughly 4GB of weights for Google’s Gemini Nano LLM, downloaded by the browser without user consent.”