Redditors have caught Google secretly updating its Chrome terms of service to remove a line that guaranteed that local AI models won't send data to Google servers.

[campuscodi@mastodon.social]

Redditors have caught Google secretly updating its Chrome terms of service to remove a line that guaranteed that local AI models won't send data to Google servers.

That's now gone, meaning your local AI sends data to Google, so it's not that local.

https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1t5qayz/chrome_removes_claim_of_ondevice_al_not_sending/

[spacelifeform@infosec.exchange]

@campuscodi

Insert Always Has Been gif here.

[ams@infosec.exchange]

@campuscodi Local as in sucks up local electricity.

[lazarou@mastodon.social]

@campuscodi could they be using people's PCs to compute their AI like the malware mines crypto?

#Technology #AI #Chrome

[jaredwhite@indieweb.social]

@campuscodi Google: I am altering the deal, pray I don't alter it any further.

[gary_alderson@infosec.exchange]

@campuscodi it is a slippery slope now for big tech ai, a caveman could do it #give me some milk or else go home

[mcr314@todon.nl]

@campuscodi damn. Time to reformat the chromebooks.

[theservitor@sigmoid.social]

@Lazarou @campuscodi

It would be way more complexity than it's worth.

I don't completely grasp what their angle is but I dimly see it's something to do with controlling how 3rd parties can access AI on your computer. It's about capabilities that aren't ripe yet more than the immediate uses. Guinea pig deployment.

The model itself is fairly innocuous. The bigger issue is just jamming 4GB+ of software on people that just wanted a damn web browser and don't GAF about AI.

[thriftwicker@mastodon.social]

@campuscodi Evil is all like, DON'T BE GOOGLE.

[pastorinni@techhub.social]

@campuscodi Google being Google. Never disappointing, we need to recognize.

[mausmalone@mastodon.social]

@campuscodi lol ... this is amazing. So you foot the bill for all the compute but they still get the surveillance out of it.

[mistonas@mastodon.social]

@campuscodi The problem is not Google, the problem are the people who don't care about any of it. Voting with your feet (leaving the product) would force the company to make changes for the good. People don't care.

We are quickly becoming a distopian world.

[grumpydad@infosec.exchange]

@campuscodi My guess is that it always did. This is just legal covering of ass.

[kkarhan@c.im]

@campuscodi
*Darth Vader Voice* "I altered the deal. Pray I don't alter it further!"

Why do people still use that #Govware?
- Use @torproject / #TorBrowser (and maybe @Waterfox if you have to use Websites run by assholes that block #Tor!)…

#privacy #AIslop #DontBlockTor

[thestonedonkey@beige.party]

@campuscodi I guess tomorrow I completely uninstall it.. I've been using Firefox for about a year and kept chrome around in case of compatibility issues.. I've opened it maybe twice over that time.

[thestonedonkey@beige.party]

@Mistonas in fairness most people have no idea, they don't follow this kind of news so it never reaches them.  The media could cover it but you know that's not happening anymore.

[kaasbaas@mastodon.africa]

@campuscodi oh no! the obvious, predictable and predicted thing has come to pass!
if only somebody had warned us!

*faints dramatically onto day bed*

This timeline is so bloody stupid.

[kwramm@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@campuscodi serves people right for using Chrome. Been saying it for years, but people are like "no, everyone uses it, blah blah"... and unlike Edge you can't even use the excuse that it's been pre-installed. Using Chrome is a choice.

[erwinrossen@mas.to]

@TheStoneDonkey @Mistonas Even if you tell people, they don't care. Maybe they need to hear it from multiple angles and repeatedly, but just knowing about it is not enough to give up the comfortable life.

[koh_kun@mastodon.social]

@campuscodi Google: Guys no, it's just our new offering "Local+". It gathers info locally and just "re-localizes" it to another location that is more local to me and my clients, that's all! Nothing remotely fishy (hehe) about this at all!