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What's Google Chrome's Screen AI?

6 points by itvision 3y ago

I don't want any fancy AI features from my web browser yet I've recently discovered a huge library/extension in my Google Chrome's profile directory: $ du -hs screen_ai 255M screen_ai which contains libchromescreenai.so weighing 263,110,752 bytes. What is it? Is it possible to disable it for good? I can imagine Google will now regularly push its updates which I do not want either.

itvision 3y ago
From https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40810109 https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40810109 and https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/3358073 https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/33... Add Screen AI service for accessibility annotations. To improve the accessibility tree based on visual data, a snapshot of the screen is sent to a local machine learning library. The library will provide annotations for the snapshot and the annotations will be used to update the accessibility tree. This CL adds a Screen AI sand-boxed service to load the library, and general infrastructure to pass the images from renderer to the library and getting back and applying the annotations. The actual details on how the annotations are processed and used will be added in subsequent CLs. See more in go/chrome-screen-ai. This change is behind kScreenAI flag and disabled by default. I still have no clue. Annotations for screenshots?
- nolist_policy 3y ago
  Sounds like a11y without the apps having to explicitly implement it. "accessibility tree" is generally the interface trough which apps provide a11y information to the OS.
bertman 3y ago
DESCRIPTION='ScreenAI is a binary to provide AI based models to improve assistive technologies. The binary is written in C++ and is currently used by ReadAnything and PdfOcr services on Chrome OS.' from https://source.chromium.org/chromiumos/_/chromium/chromiumos/overlays/chromiumos-overlay/+/0833b3042280e18d022cebb82507e5a4d882f5cb:app-accessibility/screen-ai/screen-ai-123.3.ebuild;drc=86aa805f95a270ce03b53b7f9f9c1f8f577dd697;l=8 https://source.chromium.org/chromiumos/_/chromium/chromiumos...
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