[intellectronica]

In their defense, it's an astonishingly good model for this size and you can use it for all sorts of cool stuff.

Little demo of using this local model to inject AI into a page with a monkeyscript: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPi33D8DoQ0&t=3000s

[ghurtado]

That does nothing to defend Google since the quality of the model is irrelevant to the accusation.

[expedition32]

You'd think that if a technology is so good you don't need to force it on people.

[scottyah]

It's not forced on people, get a grip. It's a free feature on a free browser, just like all the other features.

[ghurtado]

It certainly shouldn't require masses of blank eyed fans all making highly emotional pleads to protect the sensitivity of their favorite logo.

That's gross even by Microsoft standards.

[imnes]

The accusation that they pushed a new feature to Chrome users? They do that all the time? Why is this one alarming / needs special consent?

[DennisAleynikov]

yeah I'm lowkey pissed off people keep insulting google for giving them an offline version of coding enabled wikipedia that they get literally 0 data analytics from (just turn your wifi and ethernet off and use it offline after downloading it)

what part of the 4Gb file offended people?

the fact that ai runs on the edge reliably now?

[ecommerceguy]

Memory prices will adjust accordingly as this becomes the norm.