In their defense, it's an astonishingly good model for this size and you can use it for all sorts of cool stuff.

Little demo of using this local model to inject AI into a page with a monkeyscript: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPi33D8DoQ0&t=3000s

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DennisAleynikov 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

yeah I'm lowkey pissed off people keep insulting google for giving them an offline version of coding enabled wikipedia that they get literally 0 data analytics from (just turn your wifi and ethernet off and use it offline after downloading it)

what part of the 4Gb file offended people?

the fact that ai runs on the edge reliably now?

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ecommerceguy 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Memory prices will adjust accordingly as this becomes the norm.

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ghurtado 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> yeah I'm lowkey pissed off people keep insulting google

This is the kind of bootlicker that will usher in the new distopia.

Thanks

	▲	DennisAleynikov 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		you're welcome for the total lack of reading comprehension on your part. the edgy kids all hate google we get it but how the fk is a free offline ai model even a bad thing for privacy or even benefitting google in any way other than giving away privacy preserving tech for free they obviously aren't good intentioned here, and benefit from the aggregate of data but OpenAI and Anthropic might as well be enemies of all humanity given they contribute nothing back to the knowledge that is useable offline without their exorbitant api costs google should be better about their more evil tendencies but they now have sufficient competition that bootlicking is not an important thing to point out in the fight over open source(ish) models that allow people more freedom not less its all moot when nobody can afford hardware in the first place that can run ai models so I guess I'm just yelling into the void here

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ghurtado 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That does nothing to defend Google since the quality of the model is irrelevant to the accusation.

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imnes 40 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The accusation that they pushed a new feature to Chrome users? They do that all the time? Why is this one alarming / needs special consent?

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expedition32 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You'd think that if a technology is so good you don't need to force it on people.

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ghurtado 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It certainly shouldn't require masses of blank eyed fans all making highly emotional pleads to protect the sensitivity of their favorite logo.

That's gross even by Microsoft standards.

	▲	DennisAleynikov 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		blank eyed critics not understanding what fight they are fighting are funnier yet muhhhh logo bad thoooo