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croes
85 days ago
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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on...
Maybe it’s pro-browser activism.
A browser should render web pages not bring its own AI
brendoelfrendo
85 days ago
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Yeah, it's already egregious how resource intensive browsing the web can be, between the browser and the content its loading. Why should we just accept that Google will force another performance hit by loading up an AI model as well?
account42
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I guess they took all the Chrome RAM usage memes as feature requests.
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