Chrome users were caught off guard by a 4-GB Google AI model baked into Chrome, sparking privacy concerns. You might not want to. If you use Google's Chrome browser for desktop, there's probably a Gemini Nano AI model running on your computer right now and taking up about 4 GB of space. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but if you didn't know about it and don't want it, there's a way to turn it off. The file started auto-downloading for Chrome users in 2024 after Google built Gemini Nano into the browser.

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PCWorld discovered that Google Chrome silently downloads a 4GB AI model called Gemini Nano to users' computers without explicit consent. This AI model provides local features like text summarization and scam warnings, but consumes significant storage space on devices. Users can permanently remove the file by disabling "On-device AI" in Chrome's system settings. Detailed instructions are provided below. Google's Chrome browser is already a notorious storage hog, but now comes word that it's crowding our PC drives in a new way: with a local AI model. That model, spotted by That Privacy Guy, gets silently downloaded to your PC or Mac upon installing Chrome, and it gobbles up a whopping 4GB of storage space. Spoiler alert: Yes, you can remove the file, and I'm going to show you how.

A technician works at an Amazon Web Services AI datacentre in New Carlisle, Indiana. A technician works at an Amazon Web Services AI datacentre in New Carlisle, Indiana. Amazon's cloud'hit by two outages caused by AI tools last year' Reported issues at Amazon Web Services raise questions about firm's use of artificial intelligence as it cuts staff Amazon's huge cloud computing arm reportedly experienced at least two outages caused by its own artificial intelligence tools, raising questions about the company's embrace of AI as it lays off human employees. A 13-hour interruption to Amazon Web Services' (AWS) operations in December was caused by an AI agent autonomously choosing to "delete and then recreate" a part of its environment, the Financial Times reported. AWS, which provides vital infrastructure for much of the internet, suffered several outages last year.

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