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.
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.