Stephen Downes

This is an update on the revelation that "Google Chrome is silently downloading Gemini Nano onto our computers without a clear opt-in or notification." As Mark Corbett Wilson describes it, it's not simply that people are finding an unexpected AI model on their hard drive.  "Beyond the AI model, the 'ghost' data in Chrome often extends to the GPUCache. Chrome builds a massive cache of 'shaders' to speed up graphics rendering on your GPU. Over time, these can balloon into several gigabytes and they rarely clean themselves up." Cleaning it up is not a simple task, as described here.