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Re: Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers

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It seems to me that adding AI to desktop apps and sending the data back to the mothership for processing is an amazing way to collect data from people who, for the most part, would be completely unaware it's even happening. Heck, most of them think the Internet is Chrome.

You mean that chrome is an internet explorer?

No, I think it was meant literally. Like the IT Crowd skit where Jen refers to the Internet Explorer desktop shortcut as "the button for the internet".

Re: Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers

#142
As soon as data starts being exfiltrated to Google (or any Big Tech firm), be sure that governments will demand their copy of the stream too.

The non-disclosure clauses in mass surveillance legislation will ensure the process is opaque to users.

You’ll only find out about it when your door is smashed down and all your devices are seized, because Chrome’s crappy 4GB AI model misinterpreted an innocent photo of your kid in a paddling pool.

Re: Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers

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My belief is that the AI business is all about data collection. The value isn't so much in the quality of the models (that's what enterprise customers and developers pay to get), but in the amount of data that comes "for free" to whoever hosts the models. And then it's worth whoever buys it thinks it is, like insurers or advertisers.

Yeah I was wondering how long it would take for a browser company to do something like this. It lets them scrape data without having to deal with anti-scraping provisions on websites, since now their training data collection gets spread across the entire Chrome userbase and they're able to offload the work of bypassing the Cloudflare captchas or whatever to their end users.

Google doesn't need to that because Google is not affected by any anti-scraping provisions, every website literally begs Google to get scraped.

Re: Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers

#145

It seems to me that adding AI to desktop apps and sending the data back to the mothership for processing is an amazing way to collect data from people who, for the most part, would be completely unaware it's even happening. Heck, most of them think the Internet is Chrome.

You mean that chrome is an internet explorer?

More of a navigator for the 'scape of the net.

Re: Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers

#147

It seems to me that adding AI to desktop apps and sending the data back to the mothership for processing is an amazing way to collect data from people who, for the most part, would be completely unaware it's even happening. Heck, most of them think the Internet is Chrome.

You mean that chrome is an internet explorer?

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Re: Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brave is has pre-configured as block that works on everything, also a polished sync experience.

Vivaldi's sync experience is nice as well. Top notch customization too.

Vivaldi is often behind on chromium security patch. In fact they are right now.

Re: Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers

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post #96

My belief is that the AI business is all about data collection. The value isn't so much in the quality of the models (that's what enterprise customers and developers pay to get), but in the amount of data that comes "for free" to whoever hosts the models. And then it's worth whoever buys it thinks it is, like insurers or advertisers.

100% and if you have data other model providers can't 'scrape' (e.g. Google access to Chrome user/usage data) you're in a better position to win.
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