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Chrome shipped an LLM Prompt API to the web platform. At Mozilla, we oppose this API. Here's why:

@paul.kinlan.me

@jakearchibald.com - "In Chrome when you create a LanguageModel it will either use the Google Cloud API or download a 4GB model to run locally". We don't use the Google Cloud API. If the model isn't available we will kick off a download, but the API just doesn't work without the modal locally.

Michael Warren

@michaelwarren.dev

19 May

is there a permission check on the users machine before downloading? is it possible that end users get llms downloaded to their machines without their knowledge?

Firefox for Web Developers

@webdevs.firefox.com

There's no permission check, and it's downloaded without the user's knowledge. The spec has points that would allow for a permission check. But, to be fair, the web doesn't limit downloads - any page can download GBs without permission. Whether they should is another question.

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