Google Chrome Secretly Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC
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Reader, have you noticed your computer’s storage suddenly shrinking lately?
Recently, a strange file has been making waves among Chrome users worldwide. Its name: weights.bin. Its size: 4GB. Buried deep in Chrome’s browser folder, this file turned out to be Gemini Nano, Google’s on-device AI model. The problem? Nobody asked for it to be installed.
Swedish privacy researcher Alexander Hanff uncovered the discovery by analyzing macOS kernel logs, and the same phenomenon was later confirmed...
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