💻 Technology May 9, 2026 · Mark Campbell

Google caught automatically downloading 4GB AI model on Chrome without consent

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Google Chrome has been silently downloading a 4GB AI model to devices Alexander Haniff, the AI researcher known as “That Privacy Guy“, discovered this week that Google has been silently downloading a 4GB AI model onto the systems of Google Chrome users. This model was downloaded without users’ consent and redownloads itself when users delete […]
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