[bytecauldron]

This is a bit disingenuous. People aren't losing their shit about a local model being installed. It's the lack of user autonomy. Just give the option to download a model instead of a silent install. It's not that hard. This is how every other local option works.

[wmf]

AFAIK Apple and MS auto-download local models.

[FridgeSeal]

The former has made a big deal about local inference and marketed that as an OS level feature.

You can also…turn it off.

Chrome silently elected people into it _and_ downloaded the model without asking because they decided that’s something they (chrome) fancied doing.

The difference should be pretty obvious.

[bytecauldron]

Sorry, I should have been more specific. This is how every *good local option works.