@Thomashornall Thank you for that article. I noticed it decades ago but nobody would believe me.
Simple things like bread rolls, tissues, deodorant spray has only been added a couple of years ago.
do you understand what just happened to your computer..
Google Chrome secretly downloaded a 4GB AI model onto your device. Without asking.. Without telling you..
It's called weights.bin. It lives deep in your system folders. It powers Gemini Nano - Google's on-device AI.
And if you delete it? Chrome re-downloads it automatically. Like nothing happened.
Just Google deciding your hard drive is their storage unit.
At 1 billion Chrome users - that's 4 BILLION gigabytes of data pushed silently across the internet.
The carbon footprint alone equals tens of thousands of cars running for a year.
Check your disk right now:
๐ %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\OptGuideOnDeviceModel
To stop it: chrome://flags โ disable Optimization Guide On Device Model โ restart Chrome โ delete the folder.
Reshare so people know what's sitting on their computers.
@FufuVT 0, cause I'd never hurt my home boys: insects who have the largest biomass on the planet and are responsible for a diverse and balanced ecosystem. Yeah you guys better feel bad.
But fuck mosquitos, those assholes can burn in hell and then go to double hell.
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@Rainmaker1973 Its called technological advancement and it's a good thing. But his job will still be indispensable, because AI is only the tool not the worker.