Damn, I hope this is not goodbye to uncensored models 😢

  • olympicyes@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Is there something unique about hugging face that the models cannot be hosted elsewhere? I see open source as more important to Nvidia than anyone else because it sells hardware. The services’ motivations are only partially aligned with Nvidia.

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      I think it’s mainly just the huge amount of storage. Huggingface has been burning venture capital money for the insane among of storage space they need, afaik

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        3 hours ago

        I’ve never understood why they don’t seed torrents for those huge files. So much money on bandwidth that they just don’t need to spend.

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        I don’t see how they could be burning considerable amounts of money on storage, as long as they have setup their own infrastructure and don’t rent it.

        I don’t know how much they’re storing, I guess they’re in the petabyte territory. That’s what, a few tens of millions of dollars of up front investment?

        Not free, but not such a huge amount of money.

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          All they do is store tho, they dont profit off that I imagine, I honestly have no clue