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Ok, I don't know how reliable is this site and I don't recall seeing any other articles about this subject depite the following article being over 1 month old so, take it with a pinch of salt:

Google Chrome Secretly Downloads Huge Local AI Models
https://winaero.com/google-chrome-secretly-downloads-huge-local-ai-models/
Google Chrome automatically installs local neural network components on user systems via default configurations. The browser downloads a 4GB local version of Gemini Nano without explicit user consent. The system activates this model during interactions with Google services, and Google enables these options by default.

I don't use Chrome and, therefore, I can't test if this is true and if the guide to remove the files and to stop Chrome from downloading again works or not.

I think it's strange that something like this has gone unnoticed for so long, but I decided to share it with you just in case we start hearing it and it gains more credibility. And well, because it's Google and they're capable of this and more.



Please excuse my bad English.

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