This is a really interesting idea, sitting here reading the website. The main issue for current artists with deals with record labels would be needing to re-negotiate rights so they are allowed to "distribute" it in such a way.

But yes! I too have had the same thought for years about bittorrent as distributed cloud storage! Thank you for trying to make that a reality!

I will patiently watch this project with great interest. I am sorry to say I am far too broke to contribute at the moment, but I have high hopes that you succeed nonetheless!

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.

You mean huggingbay?

Jesus there are too many already

Seems like it.

Not sure if they are verified but it seems there are more models here then on llama garden.

But I knew of neither project before this post so thanks

the trend is currently that oen weight models are going proprietary as they are trying to find methods of making money, so capturing what exists of them might make the last one before they go closed still feasible to retrieve.

unethical things

You mean like anything that goes against pro-corprate neoliberal values? It should be. We should fight to preserve models like that the same way we fight to have spaces to stay that stuff ourselves.

If "unethical" means "things Nvidia doesn't want you to do", then yes.

It's because Nvidia bought huggingface, and everyone expects them to start deleting anything unprofitable, not just potentially objectionable.

Because both major GPU manufacturers are controlled by the same family. The primary model repo is controlled by that same family now. Both major pipelines are controlled by that same family. ONNX and the diffusion pipelines are maintained by Microsoft. The alternatives are controlled by hyperscalers (with the exception of civitai I guess). All frontier model pipelines are directly controlled by a single family in China. So its very much possible that you could be banned from accessing them yes. We really don't need a pirate instance we just need AN instance at this point.

Contemporary AI encourages harmful behaviours, nobody who have used AI denies its usefullness but it is unethical. Look at the layoffs, datacenter caused environment destruction, AI psychosis etc.

Unfortunately, we humans have destructive tendencies and AI just accelerates that. What we need is to slow down or ban AI outright (imho), then fix our issues like world hunger, climate crisis, housing crisis etc. first

That's always been my position, IMO - it does have some genuinely useful applications, but we've blown it up into this huge thing and tried to shoehorn it into everything, and it's polarized people into these "AI in everything" and "AI in nothing" camps.

there are several flavors of justified AI hate and, just as much, there are several legitimate use cases where it is genuinely helpful. Not nearly as many as venture capital seems to think (which is a large part of the reason for the hate), but still.

Like most things in life it is a nuanced topic with no easy, singular true answer, and anyone trying to tell you it has one is usually trying to sell you something.

I think we can collectively ignore irrational folks, whether lovers or haters.

Yeah needing an account is antithetical to open source and an affront to piracy and if it was a private tracker they shouldn't and wouldn't be advertising like this.

plinius abliterated , there are a handful of people that are dropping abliterated models of every open weights model. gemma 4 and qwen 3.8 seems to be the decent ones at sizes for mere mortal hardware, though its going to take a few more generations of models to get to being super usable like frontier models .

The key word you're looking for is "abliterated"

There's a lot of those on HF already, search heratic or uncensored