Deleting Bluesky, insta and Reddit for the next month. If this album and comic ain’t finished by September, it’ll be gone then too lol
Nicklaus Gray
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![On any machine that has Chrome installed, in the user profile, sits a directory whose name is OptGuideOnDeviceModel. Inside it is a file called weights.bin. The file is approximately 4 GB. It is the weights file for Gemini Nano. Chrome uses it to power features Google has marketed under names like "Help me write", on-device scam detection, and other AI-assisted browser functions.
The file appeared with no consent prompt. There is no checkbox in Chrome Settings labelled "download a 4 GB AI model". The download triggers when Chrome's AI features are active, and those features are active by default in recent Chrome versions. On any machine that meets the hardware requirements, Chrome treats the user's hardware as a delivery target and writes the model.
The cycle of deletion and re-download has been documented across multiple independent reports on Windows installations [5][6][7][8] - the user deletes, Chrome re-downloads, the user deletes again, Chrome re-downloads again. The only ways to make the deletion stick are to disable Chrome's AI features through chrome://flags or enterprise policy tooling that home users do not generally have,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e2qarfoklzpw6sgbkme4b66n/bafkreie5etvojosc4jex2bkey2uepvcuw3iwjzrf7qgt5n3eh3h3v63zxi)
