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Today Google bricked my Chromebook by force-installing a hidden extension

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237 points robin_reala | 2 comments | 29 Mar 25 09:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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scq ◴[29 Mar 25 11:24 UTC] No.43514594[source]▶
This seems like a bug in the ScreenAI service? There's no evidence whatsoever for his claim that Google "trains a machine vision model on the contents of my screen".

According to https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/servic... it is just inference.

> These functionalities are entirely on device and do not send any data to network or store on disk.

There is also this description in the Chrome OS source code:

> 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.

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1. yard2010 ◴[29 Mar 25 14:57 UTC] No.43516050[source]▶
You're paraphrasing a google source, it might be biased or just lie, they need the money, after all, they can't risk it.
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2. scq ◴[30 Mar 25 01:08 UTC] No.43520250[source]▶
You can read the source for the integration, it lines up exactly with what I said.

You can make up any conspiracy theory you want, but there's no evidence for it.