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.
all capitalists will move on from the models they use as sales tactics when getting initial chunks of cash from stockholders or the public. corporations are only capable of being evil. there is no such thing as a not-evil corporation.
The clear signal when you remove the sign outside your house of “don’t be evil” is that you are, in fact, now evil. Why else would you remove that sign?
I remember when Google’s motto was “don’t be evil”. I guess they’ve moved on from that.
They did in fact a few years ago silently remove it
I guess they realized that money is evil, and not being evil is bad for business.
It is currently there.
all capitalists will move on from the models they use as sales tactics when getting initial chunks of cash from stockholders or the public. corporations are only capable of being evil. there is no such thing as a not-evil corporation.
The clear signal when you remove the sign outside your house of “don’t be evil” is that you are, in fact, now evil. Why else would you remove that sign?