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Pure, unadulterated, poorly researched and factually incorrect clickbait. Question from last November, even referring to macOS, by @paulirish: https://superuse

by cachius 5mo ago

Pure, unadulterated, poorly researched and factually incorrect clickbait. Question from last November, even referring to macOS, by @paulirish: https://superuser.com/q/1930445/can-i-delete-the-chromes-optguideondevicemodel-safely-its-taking-up-4gb https://superuser.com/q/1930445/can-i-delete-the-chromes-opt... With policy setting, debug url, docs in the answers. One search away.

cachius 5mo ago
For completeness: The single policy setting name to disable model download is GenAILocalFoundationalModelSettings https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/gen-ai-local-foundational-model-settings/ https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/gen-ai-local-founda... The current state can be viewed at the internal debug URL chrome://on-device-internals/ Since January there's a user facing toggle in Settings > System > On-device AI in Chrome Canary https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/google-chrome-now-lets-you-turn-off-on-device-ai-model-powering-scam-detection/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligenc..., described in Chrome Help Center at https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/16961953https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/16961953?hl=en https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/16961953https://sup...