Google Chrome will steal 4GB of disk space from your computer for its local large language model unless you opted out. It called weights.bin and it stored in a folder called OptGuideOnDeviceModel. What more, if you track down the file and delete it, Chrome will download a fresh copy and reinstate it. The discovery was announced this week by Alexander Hanff, who blogs as the Privacy Guy, in a somewhat sensationally titled blog post: Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device...
