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Google Chrome is reaching into users’ machines and writing a 4GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google’s on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/05/08/0635229/chrome-silently-installs-a-4gb-ai-model-on-your-device-without-consent

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