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by ZetsuBouKyo 36 days ago
According to the current shortage of computing power and electricity, I suspect that what they really want is not your data, but the computing power and electricity from your device.

If users' behaviors can be pre-labeled on their own devices, processed with AI, and then sent back, it might save a significant amount of internal computing costs.
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suburban_strike 35 days ago
Chrome does/did this already. They've never been of any forensic interest to me but the history file stores clusters of domains visited and keywords searched for. It was pitched as user "Journeys." I think they've deprecated it.

https://chromeunboxed.com/chrome-memories-history-journeys

A 4B model is not very useful for text generation, but useful for classification, so you're probably right.

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fithisux 35 days ago
Yes, it is useful for the next wave of eitch hunting

Witch true/false Commie true/false Possible customer true/false

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