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Chrome’s On-Device AI Is Installing Without Your Consent — Here’s How to Stop It If you use Google Chrome, a quiet change may have already landed on your machine. Recent reports from Decrypt, Yahoo Tech, and other outlets reveal that Chrome is silently downloading a roughly 4GB AI model—likely Gemini Nano—onto users’ computers. The model is intended for on‑device AI features, but the installation happens without a clear consent prompt. Even worse, if you delete the model, Chrome quietly puts it back. ...

Chrome Removes Privacy Promise for On-Device AI: What You Need to Know If you use Google Chrome, a significant privacy-related change has flown under the radar. Multiple reports indicate that Google has deleted a long-standing privacy commitment stating that on-device AI features would process data entirely locally. At the same time, Chrome is silently installing a 4 GB AI model on many users’ computers—and it may come back even after you delete it. ...