If You Use Google Chrome, Your Device May Have Secretly Downloaded a 4GB AI Model

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Millions of Chrome users have had a 4GB AI model installed without being asked. The program is the AI Gemini Nano and is Google's local model. What is Gemini Nano that is being installed automatically? It is the Swedish data scientist and lawyer Alexander Hanff, known as "That Privacy Guy", who reported the practice earlier in May. The model is installed for Chrome users without consent, and you won't even know it's there unless you actively loo…