Cybernews.com May 05, 2026 • 13:16

Guy finds Google Chrome is quietly installing a 4GB AI model on our devices - Cybernews

Guy finds Google Chrome is quietly installing a 4GB AI model on our devices - Cybernews

Google Chrome is reaching into users’ machines and writing a 4GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking, Alexander Hanff writes.

Google Chrome is silently installing a 4GB AI model on each of our devices without consent, says Alexander Hanff, a prominent computer scientist and lawyer. According to him, thats both illegal and e… [+2890 chars]

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