>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.

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masfuerte an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Do you think no-one would notice that the Chrome download was 20GB larger?

	▲	gruez an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Who says they'll be using the 20GB model? You'd hardly need frontier level intelligence to detect CSAM or ad keywords. Moreover, it's downloaded on first use, not bundled with the browser, so you won't really notice unless you're checking the chrome user data directory, but that also contains caches and other site data you'd likely chalk it up to random sites.

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2ndorderthought 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's a lot easier to hide the language they need in a EULA for a feature like this than it would be elsewhere.

I appreciate you feel this is a cynical take. But have you seen the class action lawsuits against Google over the last 5 years? They exceed a billion dollars as far as I can remember and they are for more blatant things than this.

	▲	gruez 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>It's a lot easier to hide the language they need in a EULA for a feature like this than it would be elsewhere. Why would adding a ML API or library require an EULA change?