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Chrome version 147 silently downloads Gemini Nano's weights.bin file to local storage, sparking major privacy, data, and legal concerns.

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[-] Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

What little I read about this it seems to only be on desktop. For now.

Some suit in the C Suite is having a wet dream though imagining the not so far off future where they can run shit like this on your phone.

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It lets them artificially inflate user counts

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