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> But how can you trust Google to autoinstall one on your machine

Why are AI models something I'd be uniquely unable to trust Google to install, compared all the other code included in Chrome updates? Is your point just that you shouldn't trust Chrome in general?

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Yes I would not trust Google or chrome. They have a history of class action lawsuits for doing shady things to users. Enabling them to condense data on your machine and transmit it however they want, should they choose too is suspect to me.

Google is probably still sucking up the contents of your LLM requests even with the model running locally.

Yeah, so unclear why yer again everyone is so quickly running for the pitchforks & torches. The model doesn't do anything, it's just a sandbox.

I'm really tired of such overinflated ridiculousness shrillness against Google. Yes there are very real tensions to this company and their as business is scary as heck.

But folks don't seem capable of processing duality, don't seem to be able to do much but ad-hominem until they pass out. Its really so exhausting having such empty energy charging in every single time, and it keeps obstructing any ability to think straight or assess.

I was waiting for Google to pull a local LLM onto Chrome/Android devices. It opens up some revenue streams that weren't easily possible before: for example the often memed "I was talking about cigars with my wife one single time and now all I see are adsense ads for cigars" gets much easier with a local model doing speech to text and topic classification.

The point is that what you're "sick of" isn't actually authentic human thought, but in reality you're responding to a recent european-driven propaganda campaign with the goal of deriding anything and everything related to US tech.

> Yeah, so unclear why yer again everyone is so quickly running for the pitchforks & torches.

Cause everyone loves a good bonfire and a fresh hot roast.

> The model doesn't do anything, it's just a sandbox.

Doesn't that make it worse? They forced everyone to download 4GB of crap for nothing. They could have done one of two things:

(1) bundle the model with the application so you can tell ahead of time you're signing up for 4GB of bandwidth usage or

(2) make downloading the model some kind of opt-in thing.

Either of those would have worked. Just because you can easily tolerate 4GB of unplanned bandwidth usage doesn't mean everyone who can't is wrong.

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