Comment by raxxorraxor
1 day ago
I think a local AI model is appreciated, but it being bundled and executed through Chrome, I expect that more or less all data get exfiltrated by Google.
They simply read your mails, how would you expect there to be anything resembling decency in a company like that? It is the ad business.
Bad thing is that people still use gmail.
Doesn't google already extract every single letter you put into the address bar as you type?
The idea that the model is local is just Privacy Washing. What's the chance they aren't capturing your prompts somehow? For "Telemetry" so they can triage bugs of course!
Is it really privacy washing? This author assumed people would think AI was local but I don't know anyone like that. Everyone I know who's not deep in tech only uses big hosted models and isn't aware that anything else exists.
I'm more inclined to think it's cost unloading. Move their cloud GPU costs to your desktop.