Bury Me At Makeout Creek

built to spill - kicked it in the sun

Google Chrome is silently installing a 4GB AI model on each of our devices without consent, says Alexander Hanff, a prominent computer scientist and lawyer. According to him, that’s both illegal and extremely costly for the climate.

Hanff said on his blog he’s discovered that Chrome is “reaching into users’ machines and writing a 4GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking.”

The file is named weights.bin, and it lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. Essentially, it’s the weights for Gemini Nano, Google’s on-device large language model.

Moreover, the file appeared with no consent prompt, Hanff says. There is no checkbox in Chrome Settings labeled “download a 4GB AI model.”

Bison

Accent — Heems, Lapgan, Saul Williams

The instances of gratitude outweigh the tragic perceptions and realities that we are in

Proximity to, but alive enough to bear witness

The grief is in the fact that we have survived

So how can our survival honor this?

Manshoo

When the premises betray promises, who do you run to?

Your feet are tired of running from hate and they put a gun to your head

And so you pray for peace, become a piece of prey

Cried out, how do you muster tears for today?

Do I aspire to a hashtag of my memory?

They're taking my humanity, it's draining of my energy

How many likes will my hate crime receive?

How many times will the hate crimes deceive?

It's easier to make a meme than to have a dream

'Cause to Heems it just seems that they deem as a scheme

Can you flee when they treat you like dogs with the fleas?

You say please, but they beat you like dogs with disease

And the plans dried up and you're out of tears

And your visa ran out so you're out of years

And how does my accent sound when I'm crying?

How does my accent sound when I'm dying?

When I'm dying, when I'm dying

How does my accent sound when I'm crying?

How does my accent sound when I'm dying?

When I'm dying, when I'm dying

How does my accent sound?