[gruez]

>You pay 4GB for the illusion of privacy.

How's this conspiracy supposed to work? A technical audience who cares about privacy aren't going to be placated by 4GB sitting on their disk. They're going to want some sort of analysis (like http interception), or probably not use chrome in the first place. A non-technical audience isn't going to make the association between 4GB of disk usage and the privacy implications.

[skeeter2020]

1. I've got a Chrome local model stored on my drive 2. I see a heavily promoted "AI search" box in chrome

Natural Conclusion: when I use all the promoted AI features in chrome it's using the local AI model. This is not true; Google is being intentionally misleading.

[apublicfrog]

I suspect the type of person who is even aware of this 4GB blob is the type of person who would research its usage. Pretty high venn diagram crossover.

[therealpygon]

Yeah. The fictional user doesn’t know anything about AI but knows about this 4gb file…because of news stories about how bad a 4gb file must be. Outside of that, they don’t know or care and wonder if that means that need to add some more “memory” to their computer.

[chronc6393]

> They're going to want some sort of analysis

And I want $1 billion dollars.

Doesn’t mean someone’s going to give it to me.

[gruez]

Point is, nobody is going to be like "wow, chrome is eating up 4GB of my disk space? I totally trust it now!"

[nicce]

That misses the point of the original commenter. He is saying that local model only powers things where privacy is not so relevant and that creates the illusion.

[hnlmorg]

Email me your bank details and I’ll send the money