Chrome version 147 silently downloads Gemini Nano’s weights.bin file to local storage, sparking major privacy, data, and legal concerns.
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- 24 minutes
People are shocked when the bad boyfriend (google) that people warned them about, do highly unethical things. That boyfriend only exists to use & abuse you, it has no other purpose anymore.
- username_1@programming.devEnglish8 minutes
That “boyfriend” just makes money, he doesn’t know or even care about your existence.
- 32 minutes
What if you keep the file around but write to it and zero size it? Does chrome still download the file again?
1 hourWell I’m glad Google decided to bite the bullet and face the immense, Biblical backlash. So that Mozilla Corporation has a few new thoughts to ponder on.
- 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@piefed.zipEnglish1 hour
I wonder if they do it on phones as well. Not everyone has a 256GB+ device, and 4GB would be a significant chunk on even that.
- Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.worksEnglish4 minutes
What little I read about this it seems to only be on desktop. For now.
Some suit in the C Suite is having a wet dream though imagining the not so far off future where they can run shit like this on your phone.
- 2 hours
But…
Isn’t that a good thing?
I mean, running an LLM locally is much more private than running it somewhere in the cloud at a provider that gets your raw data, isn’t it?
All your data stays on your device, while making it much, much harder for Google to argument why it should be uploaded to their data centers.- Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 minute
I’m reminded of when they pinky swore that they weren’t dissecting your data in incognito tabs.
They lied. And nothing ever really happened to them for it. Proof is that they still have the audacity to do anti consumer shit like this and not even think twice.
- 2 hours
All your data stays on your device
You don’t seriously believe that, do you? They just use your device’s memory and CPU, thus your electricity to shovel through your data and then sending all valuable data to their servers.
- scytale@piefed.zipEnglish34 minutes
If they are doing this without user knowledge, I wouldn’t trust that everything the LLM ingests stays local either, until proven otherwise. Also, not everyone wants to have a local LLM running on their browser eating up 4GB of space.
- fpslem@lemmy.worldEnglish1 hour
If the reporting is accurate, your data is still sent to Google’s servers for processing. This doesn’t appear to improve privacy, it’s more like an extension of the user surveillance business model that Google has pursued in the past decade.
- brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish2 hours
It’s not a good thing if you don’t want a freaking LLM to begin with. Hidden 4GB download for a feature I can’t give a sungle fuck about is ridiculous.
- BrightCandle@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
If someone chooses to do that then yes its a better option, but 4GB of LLM shouldn’t just be shipped in a browser.
- crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish1 hour
If I choose to install and use an LLM on my device, sure. That doesn’t mean Google should take it upon themselves to ship one baked into the browser, with no way to opt out or remove it without it being re-downloaded.
Assuming Google will respect privacy is certainly a take.
The model could interact with everything on the PC without overhead on connection or servers, or user consent and then report back compressed reports. And who knows, maybe even training the model in a distributed way with users interactions with the PC.
- Darnton@piefed.zipEnglish2 hours
Sure, but privacy isn’t the only issue. It still consumes a ton of energy all for basically nothing. So you are paying that electric bill, as well as as the wear and tear on your GPU.
