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"textContent": "\nGoogle Chrome users who have noticed unusual disk activity or unexplained drops in available storage should look for a folder called \"OptGuideOnDeviceModel\" inside their Chrome directory. It holds roughly 4GB of weights for Google's Gemini Nano LLM, downloaded by the browser without user consent.\n\nRead Entire Article\n\n",
"title": "Google Chrome has been silently pushing a 4GB AI model to your device without asking"
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