Chrome silently downloads a 4GB AI model. Here's how to remove it

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.