Chrome has built-in AI history search

support.google.com

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> When you use History search, powered by AI, your searches, generated answers, best matches, and their page contents are sent to Google.

> To improve History search, powered by AI, Google may have humans review the data to help us understand the types of problems that occur.

> As you browse websites, their page contents are saved and encrypted to your device and might affect Chrome’s performance.

Sounds like a big security risk, any page’s content is fair game to be sent to Google. Humans can look at these too.

The kicker is it sounds like the model is run locally, they are only phoning home “to improve history search”:

> To get generated answers from AI-powered History, you also must:

> - Have a high performance computer.

Oh boy, another questionably useful violation of privacy that could be handled with a full text search of existing local cache..

I’m glad to see someone else say this.

90% of the AI “use cases” I’ve seen feel like they’re just looking up text, which has been a solved problem for literally decades. Except now we’re evaporating entire lakes (hyperbole) to do it with AI because reasons.

US only, unfortunately.

Unfortunately for us Americans, that is

How is having a particular option unfortunate compared to not having that option?

I guess if you really believe it’s an option

Desktop only, it seems.

For now. I can't imagine they'll let mobile users escape in the long term.

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