Wired May 07, 2026 • 20:31

You Can Disable Gemini in Chrome if It’s Freaking You Out - WIRED

By Lily Hay Newman

You Can Disable Gemini in Chrome if It’s Freaking You Out - WIRED

Chrome users were caught off guard by a 4-GB Google AI model baked into Chrome, sparking privacy concerns. The good news: You can easily uninstall it. The bad? You might not want to.

If you useGoogle's Chrome browser for desktop, there's probably a Gemini Nano AI model running on your computer right now and taking up about 4 GB of space. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but if… [+3509 chars]

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