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Lol, I’m sorry what? Has anyone heard of BitTorrent or piracy in general? You’re telling me AI models/data are too big?

Someone utilize p2p for the love of god. Pretty sure there’s gigabytes of porn moving (freely) through the internet millions of times per day.

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Some models are distributed P2P. They download slower, in my experience, and require special software rather than the usual git commands.

P2P model distribution isn't impossible, but it's a lot less interesting to many people, or they would've already spread their models through torrents in the first place.

There is just no convenient torrent-based model hub yet.

But if HF's server code is open source it should be trivial to make one.

GitTorrent came and went.

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