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We should be actively anti-AI being part of a web browser just like that though.
by nvr219 4mo ago
We should be actively anti-AI being part of a web browser just like that though.
- easterncalculus 4mo agoSure, but what's the point of obfuscating that? This article is activism. The re-framing of software that you install intentionally being about breaking your 'consent' is ideological and incendiary. It implies that this is evil. It isn't.
- tjansen 4mo agoWhy? The AI assistance in Chrome dev tools is really useful. And I also use Google AI mode all the time.
- hparadiz 4mo agoPlease stop assuming everyone thinks like you. If I can replace even something like translate with a local model that's just a single thing, off the top of my head, that could potentially benefit. I see no reason why these experiments should not be taking place.
- nvr219 4mo agoI am not assuming everyone thinks like me, I’m advocating for my position.
- greggoB 4mo agoAnd the reason they can't do something as simple and easy as ask for consent is...?
- tjansen 4mo agoThey probably didn't even think about that. Admittedly, 4GB is quite big, but if I were in their shoes, I would have expected that people are thrilled about using a local LLM instead of sending data to a cloud-based LLM. I am still stunned that there are people who hate AI so much that they have a problem with the weights of an LLM being on their computer. To me, that sounds rather esoteric.
- cataflutter 4mo agoDisk space is one thing, but the actual download size is higher than some people's data allowances altogether! It baffles me that a lot of people don't seem to be aware of this
- hparadiz 4mo agoYou provide consent by using the software.
- greggoB 4mo agoThis doesn't explain why it is beyond their ability to expressly ask for it, or notify the user in any way. Very literal example of the one not precluding the other.
- bigyabai 4mo agoSame reason the iPhone doesn't ask you which App Store you want to use. If you disagreed with the default choice, you'd be using another phone. That's how technology is nowadays, unfortunately. Pick the tribe you want to support, and watch them blatantly disregard every standard and convention of modern society. Your best bet is to personally divest from these ecosystems and advocate for their regulation and dissolution, if you think it's bad.
- greggoB 4mo agoI understand where you're coming from, but what you're describing is why they don't want or have to, not why they can't, which is specifically what I'm focused on as I think we otherwise just take these being the same thing as a baseline assumption, which is obviously not the case. We need to be clear that this isn't a technical limitation on the part of these companies, and them choosing to pursue this modus operandi is purely for their own convenience at the cost of the user.
- J-Kuhn 4mo agoYou consent by reading this comment.
- bigyabai 4mo agoYou joke, but that's how all of FAANG sees things: By using Chrome or ChromeOS, you agree to the Google Terms of Service located at https://policies.google.com/terms and these Google Chrome and ChromeOS Additional Terms of Service. https://www.google.com/chrome/terms/ https://www.google.com/chrome/terms/