[ddtaylor]

I think it falls more into the category of needing consent like a crypto miner would. If I use a piece of software to do X and it begins using more resources to do Y that can be a serious issue and is at the heart of this discussion.

[ezfe]

A crypto miner needs consent because it burns your battery and CPU power with no benefit to you. This AI model would only be used when you invoke it so the only problem is disk space, which the comment you're replying to acknowledges as a point of issue.

[J-Kuhn]

Or some website decides for you that you now want to talk to your local AI chatbot using google chrome prompt api.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/prompt-api

[kennywinker]

> This AI model would only be used when you invoke it

You sure about that? How explicit is the invocation? assuming it’s only run when the user does something (big assumption), does the user know clicking that summarize button is going to bog their system down and crank up their electricity use?

[robinsonb5]

Indeed. Trusting that it will only be processing the user's queries - as opposed to, say, becoming part of a distributed grid of AI processing nodes - isn't a bet I'd be willing to place much money on.

[bigbadfeline]

You would be right if there's a popup box with two buttons appearing before installing the model and before every time it's used by some site.

Button 1: "Stop the AI now to save X GB of RAM".

Button 2: "Erase all browser AI to save X GB of RAM and Y GB of disk"

This isn't asking for consent, it's simply informing the user about what oversized resources are optional and providing an honest way to save them.

The only alternative to that is formal consent.

[OsrsNeedsf2P]

A crypto miner generates revenue needed to run the service, similar to ads.