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:
📁 %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\OptGuideOnDeviceModel
To stop it: chrome://flags → disable Optimization Guide On Device Model → restart Chrome → delete the folder.
Reshare so people know what's sitting on their computers.
Il est rare de voir des gens parler librement de leurs addictions sans s'apitoyer sur leur sort, et du chemin vers la guérison. Jérémy Ferrari, en plus d'être un excellent humoriste, fait partie de ces gens-là.
POURQUOI VOYONS-NOUS AUTANT D'INCOMPÉTENTS À DES POSITIONS PROFESSIONNELLES ÉLEVÉES ?
Une brève vidéo qui explique parfaitement ce paradoxe.
https://t.co/wnMi1w7K3J