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Pirate Face - a Pirate Bay for LLMs (pirateface.co)
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[–] 3 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Why would Nvidia want to ban people from downloading things that need their products to run? They dont even run the risk of reputational damage from other people running scary uncensored models on their own hardware.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    First, I have AMD hardware that runs them fine. Second, you aren't paying a subscription. They don't care if you already purchased their product. That doesn't make them additional money. They want a subscription, which is recurring revenue.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (2 children)

    Well done you, so am I as it happens, but that doesnt change that the vast majority of LLMs are running on Nvidia cards so they still would be suppressing demand for their own product. talking about subscription fees is just nonsensical here, hugging face is a mirror to host other people's weights, if they started charging people to just download (as opposed to running models, which they already seem to have a decent business for) people would like choose to host their weights elsewhere.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Most consumers are not purchasing a GPU to run an LLM. They may choose to run one if they own a GPU. This does next to nothing for their demand.

    I don't mean a subscription to Hugging Face. I mean a subscription to an LLM service. They don't want you owning. They want you renting.

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