alt Hacker NewsIs it actually privacy preserving? Chrome mostly exists to extract all the information from a user it can without immediately getting a lawsuit of greater penalty than what is gained through ads, military contracts, etc. Android isn't too far off either. I would welcome any alternative to this. I can see applications for this being things like "while device is at rest and charging summarize all of the users recent text communications" or whatever else as a legal loop hole for wiretap laws
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Hey, I'm the Chrome PM for the built-in AI APIs. I wanted to jump in on the privacy concern mentioned here.
It’s a totally valid question, and transparency is the only way this can work. On-device processing is an important core design goal of these APIs.
There are NO logs of the input / output interactions sent to any server, not even for training purposes. The only metrics we have are on performance, stability, and other generic API usage signals like any other APIs. These are all controlled by existing user preferences in Chrome.
>I can see applications for this being things like "while device is at rest and charging summarize all of the users recent text communications" or whatever else as a legal loop hole for wiretap laws
This just exposes an API for sites to use. If they wanted to do the types of spying you're cynically suggesting, they could just add it without an API and you'd be none the wiser. Chrome contains closed source components so you wouldn't even know.