Sure, 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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reactordev 15 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	aftbit 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain. What did we expect when they dropped "don't be evil" from their company values?

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akoboldfrying 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.