alt Hacker NewsSure, local models good and yes, there's no way we can trust Google.
We can be positive the entire motivation of Chrome is user behavior surveillance. There's not a nano-chance in all the multiverses that Chrome model is doing anything privately. They've gone to extraordinary length to accomplish this. It's not for free.
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akoboldfrying • yesterday at 11:43 AM
I don't trust them either, but the same Google makes Gemma 4 available to run as locally and privately as you want, and those models are pretty amazing for their size.
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marcta • yesterday at 9:26 PM
LLMs are costing Google a ton of money in compute and storage right now. If they can farm any of that off to the users, it makes economical sense.
But yes, there is a 100% chance that logs will get sent back to Google too.
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It is entirely about user surveillance as well as pushing their product on to their users because they have the install base. Google Chrome has become Microsoft IE6 in hostile user behavior.