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Google... Stop shoving AI into my face... BY DEFAULT (lemmy.world)
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Just watching some YouTube on my tablet and this is the second time AI has appeared by default. I hate Google

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[–] artwork@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Every single LLM/AI vendor works hard and dreams for humans to depend on them... When you have a dependency, you outsource certain task on it, and in case of AI, it means agentic, generative, plagiaristic, inhumane...
Results of these tasks may not be correct, desired, valuable, and degrade cognitive attitude and damage accumulated knowledge...

Eventually, AI-Users may not know any other way than using an AI-for their task, paying for it, and atrophying their life even further...
In the end, such people may become manipulatable and controllable with their environments monitored and limited on-demand by authorities...

When Chrome 147 launches against an eligible profile, the omnibox - the address bar at the top of the window, the most visible piece of real estate in the entire browser - renders an "AI Mode" pill to the right of the URL field. A reasonable user, seeing "AI Mode" sitting in their browser's most prominent UI element in 2026, with the well-publicised existence of on-device LLMs in Chrome and a 4 GB Gemini Nano binary already silently installed on their disk, is going to draw what feels like an obvious inference - that the visible AI Mode is using the on-device model, that their queries stay on the device, that the local model is what powers the local-looking surface.

Every part of that inference is wrong. The AI Mode pill in the Chrome 147 omnibox is a cloud-backed Search Generative Experience surface - every query the user types into it is sent over the network to Google's servers for processing by Google's hosted models. The on-device Nano model is not invoked by the AI Mode UI flow at all. They are entirely separate code paths - the most visible AI affordance in the browser does not use the local model the user has been silently given

Source: https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

Related: https://justthebrowser.com/ (...helps you remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers...)