Chrome secretly installed U2’s Songs of Innocence without your consent and how to uninstall (4gb AI in Chrome)

There’s been a lot of talk about where a 4gb AI file on people’s computers came from and how Chrome secretly pushed it… much like they secretly pushed several updates that fixed zero day flaws. Much like they pushed code that is not ready for prime time but you can enable it in the flags section. tl;dr – if you’re just looking for the way to disable just scroll down it’s got a big heading or click here. The AI file is currently used by the “Help me write” function of Chrome as well as that “Ask Gemini” button you’ve probably never pressed. If it’s on and your on-device AI is turned on, you’ll get a local copy of the LLM database. Don’t want it? You have to disable it in chrome://settings/ai/gemini and chrome://flags. At the moment you’ll find the file at: C:\Users\your user name\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\OptGuideOnDeviceModel\2025.8.11.1 Long path is long If you haven’t had the joy of attempting to navigate to one of these hidden directory paths (appdata is hidden) open up…